· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI ARTSWAVE | $2,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $2,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +110%
- SIST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLAone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- 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 STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND OAKS ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FREQUENT FLYERS PRODUCTIONS IN ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Americana Arts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Americana Arts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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