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American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc

Founded in 1995, the american friends of the shanghai museum is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and financial support for the shanghai museum, continuing a distinguished history of patron support for china's foremost art museum.

$25k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternational
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$25k100%
FY20224$200k50%
FY20211$50k100%
FY20201$50k100%
FY20194$101k75%
FY20183$59k100%
FY20171$60kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$545k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Smithsonian Institution$75,00020%
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco$75,00030%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$60,00010%
World Monuments Fund Inc$50,00010%
The Dunhuang Foundation Inc$50,00025%
Cleveland Museum of Art$50,00010%
Museum of Chinese in America$50,00020%
Museum Associates$50,0001n/a
The Jewish Museum$50,00010%
The Art Institute of Chicago$25,00010%
American Friends of the British Museum Inc$9,00010%
Hudson River Museum of Westchester$1,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSmithsonian Institution: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of California Berkeley Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Dunhuang Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Chinese in America: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the British Museum Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHudson River Museum of Westchester: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to American Friends of the Shanghai Museum 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.

About American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc

How much does American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc give?
American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Smithsonian Institution ($75k), Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco ($75k), University of California Berkeley Foundation ($60k).
Does American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc based?
American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc is based in NY.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $180k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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