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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
States reached
$25k
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 2023.

Arts & Culture$545k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$25,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BERKLEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE: $60k → 10%THE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 10%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 14%HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM: $1k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $9k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 17%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%THE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 10%WORLD MONUMENTS FUND: $50k → 17%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $50k → 10%JEWISH MUSEUM: $50k → 17%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $25k → 10%MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $50k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$200k · 3 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$200k
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+105%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +30%
  • AA
    ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    3× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue -27%
  • TD
    THE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +189%
  • WM
    WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +215%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +14%
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
5
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
6
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
7
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
11
Peabody Essex Museum Inc

Pem offers thought-provoking experiences of the arts, humanities, and sciences to activate understanding of our shared humanity and to empower imagination and learning through experimentation. we steward, build, and make our collections…

Arts & Culture
12
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is University of California Berkeley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCOWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCTHE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INCCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CAL…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC: $9,000 · International
Arts & Culture$451,000Education$85,000International$9,000

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 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
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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
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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.

    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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