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Alex Katz Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2021
44
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$13MPhilanthropy$450kEnvironment$144kEducation$57kReligion$4kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $433k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$225,000
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC$200,000
FILM FORUM INC$200,000
THE WOOSTER GROUP$200,000
COOPER UNION$200,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$100,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$100,000
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC$100,000
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC$100,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$96,000
THE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$75,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$60,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
THE POETRY PROJECT LTD$50,000
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULTURE$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $160k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $151k → 10%ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY: $480k → 13%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $200k → 17%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $320k → 20%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $128k → 16%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART: $173k → 21%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA: $200k → 13%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $251k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $630k → 11%BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $96k → 7%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $1.0M → 12%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $144k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $108k → 10%ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY: $200k → 13%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $100k → 17%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $200k → 20%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $87k → 16%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART: $76k → 21%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA: $128k → 13%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $131k → 14%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $420k → 12%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $120k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $96k → 10%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $100k → 17%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $120k → 20%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART: $75k → 21%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA: $100k → 13%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $225k → 12%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $76k → 10%THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $88k → 20%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $220k → 12%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $200k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $100k → 20%FILM FORUM INC: $200k → 17%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $100k → 17%FILM FORUM INC: $75k → 17%COOPER UNION: $250k → 17%COOPER UNION: $200k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 17%PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 17%THE WOOSTER GROUP: $200k → 17%THE WOOSTER GROUP: $200k → 17%THE WOOSTER GROUP: $150k → 17%THE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $75k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NE
MD
NC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Alex Katz Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 40%.

Alex Katz Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 30 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

30
15

Total granted

$12M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+21%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $851k · revenue +51%
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $824k · revenue +4%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    2× · 2018–2020 · $768k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NG
    National Gallery of Artgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $630k · revenue +38%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $243k · revenue -15%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +58%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
4
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
5
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
9
The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
10
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

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11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
San Diego Museum of Art

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; the most unlike its peers is The Living Theater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $850,807 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INCBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $829,350 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMYSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $823,515 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $768,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESNational Gallery of Art: $630,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of ArtTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $616,840 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTSTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC: $585,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOOSTER GROUP INCSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $535,060 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $459,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INC: $405,000 · Arts & CulturePAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $360,560 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $1,377,145 · Arts & Culture+14 moreCOLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $2,405,255 · OtherCOLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ARTCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $468,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTCOOPER UNION: $450,000 · OtherCOOPER UNIONBOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $374,300 · OtherBOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ARTBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $303,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC+16 more: $599,375 · Other+16 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $441,893 · Education+2 more: $1,750 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $2,000 · International
Arts & Culture$8,640,277Other$4,599,930Education$443,643International$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $850,807 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $829,350 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $823,515 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $768,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $630,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $616,840 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC: $585,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $535,060 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $459,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $441,893 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $405,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $360,560 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $303,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $248,640 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $242,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $241,005 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $165,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $140,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $115,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $53,400 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $36,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $35,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $14,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Gladys Krieble De…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…The New York Communit…Low Road FoundationJerome Foundation IncHelen Frankenthaler F…Ag FoundationThe Fan Fox and Lesli…The Cowles Charitable…
The Ford FoundationNY18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Low Road Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alex Katz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alex Katz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Alex Katz Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alex Katz Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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