· Public charity
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass
To further the development and appreciation of art made from glass through informing collectors, critics and curators of current happenings; encouraging and supporting museum exhibitions, university glass departments, specialized teaching programs, regional collector
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.
The 1 grants below total $9,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TACOMA MUSEUM OF GLASS | $9,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 33% of Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 6% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 36% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 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
- MOMuseum of Glass5× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +14%
- PGPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC3× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +270%
- TCTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- PGPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +17%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +8%- MMMORRIS MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +79%
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 mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
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,…
art education
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
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…
The mission at the Dunedin Fine Art Center is to enrich lives through educational experiences in the visual arts. The vision is to make the Dunedin Fine Art Center a leading visual art center providing unparalleled educational, cultural &…
Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Brady Craft Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 27 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 Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Art Museum ↗
- Who funds THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Glass Art Society ↗
- Who funds Brady Craft Inc ↗
- Who funds DMG SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
- Who funds BOISE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
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: Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Robert M Minkoff Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · National Philanthropic Trust · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Artsfund · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center 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.