· Private foundation
Americana Arts Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF DRAMA | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - THEATER DEPT | $10,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $3,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $2,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE | $2,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI ARTSWAVE | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +3%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +45%- AAART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF IOWAone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SIST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +110%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of cornish college of the arts is to provide students aspiring to become practicing artists with aneducational program of the highest possible quality, in an environment, that nurtures creativity and intellectualcuriosity,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Ensemble theatre of cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic over-the- rhine, dedicated to engaging, enriching and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premier productions, creating and…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Premiera Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PREMIERA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND OAKS ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FREQUENT FLYERS PRODUCTIONS IN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Nlt Foundation Inc · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 organization Americana Arts Foundation 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.
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
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 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.