How much did ALEX KATZ FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2021?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of ALEX KATZ FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

artwork tomtom mcglynnmcglynn decalartwork nicknick relphtapestryartwork katherine

2019

artwork jimjim ebersolejohn baldessaribaldessari nosenose silhouettedavid sallewinter

2020

artwork thaddeusthaddeus mosleyfrancescoartwork tabboosolomon guggenheimdiamond purpleartwork martha

2021

jamesartwork marleymarley freemanartwork justinjustin adianartwork reggiereggie burrows

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k9 grants · $60k
$10k–50k18 grants · $414k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$125M

Total assets

Largest grants

COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$225,000
THE WOOSTER GROUP$200,000
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC$200,000
COOPER UNION$200,000
FILM FORUM INC$200,000
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC$100,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$100,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$100,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$96,000
THE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$75,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$60,000
THE POETRY PROJECT LTD$50,000
FILM FORUM INC$50,000
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULTURE$50,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$50,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 82% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of ALEX KATZ FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

ALEX KATZ FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 30 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2021, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+15%

Still filing today

53%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SR
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
2× · 2019–2020 · $824k · revenue +43%
TW
THE WOOSTER GROUP
5× · 2017–2021 · $585k · revenue +35% · 25% of their budget
AI
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
2× · 2019–2020 · $442k · revenue +4%

Funded once

NG
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
one grant, 2018 · $630k · revenue +14%
PM
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $243k · revenue +55%
TM
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art connects people from around the world (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Contemporary Art

Enhance appreciation of contemporary art through education, programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Contemporary Art

Please see mission statement on form 990, page 2, part iii, line 1.

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Creation and operation of world class contemporary art museum and securing related funding.

Education

Museum of Arts and Design

The mission of the museum of arts and design (mad) is to collect, display, and interpret objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. in its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Fine Arts

The museum of fine arts houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art in order to encourage inquiry and to heighten public understanding and…

Arts & Culture

The Museum of Russian Art

The museum of russian art collects, preserves, exhibits, and illuminates the rich artistic tapestry of russia, past and present, through outstanding exhibitions and public programs for all audiences.

Arts & Culture

Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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Tucson Museum of Art

The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful, engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Academy of Design and the most unlike its peers is American Academy in Rome. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,535

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

18/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,613,727Arts & Culture$5,349,680Education$443,643International$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford FoundationNY18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ALEX KATZ FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE WOOSTER GROUP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237022729 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE WOOSTER GROUP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Alex Katz Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alex Katz Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ALEX KATZ FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alex Katz Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

ALEX KATZ FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alex Katz Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph