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Art Bridges Inc

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.

$15M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
188
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
45
Total assets, FY2025
$961M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Art Bridges Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving138$15M99%
FY20232$279M100%
FY20191$1.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Health$249MArts & Culture$31M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 124 grantees
All grantees of Art Bridges Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alice L Walton School of Medicine$248,696,4141n/a
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc$38,735,676220%
Terra Foundation for American Art$1,059,0001n/a
Philadelphia Museum of Art$389,90010%
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art$362,41913%
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc$324,08611%
Museum Associates$256,61010%
Albany Institute of History and Art$245,5871n/a
Asheville Art Museum Association Inc$218,50015%
American Folk Art Museum$217,01114%
Mobile Museum of Art Inc$197,29014%
The Chrysler Museum Incorporated$179,75811%
Peoria Riverfront Museum$167,44113%
Columbus Museum of Art$159,12711%
African American Cultural Center$138,6561n/a
Hudson River Museum of Westchester$134,30114%
Akron Art Museum$133,18512%
Mattatuck Historical Society$86,56912%
Delaware Art Museum Inc$83,1951n/a
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$83,00010%
Academy Art Museum Inc$81,83613%
Hunter Museum of American Art$81,60011%
International Print Center New York$75,0001n/a
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc$75,00011%
Heckscher Museum$75,0001n/a
The Toledo Museum of Art$74,63910%
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc$72,00110%
Allentown Art Museum$65,00012%
Kenyon College$64,70410%
Baltimore Museum of Art$63,89610%
Dubuque Museum of Art$61,5791n/a
The Museum of Art and Light Inc$59,51712%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$52,79310%
The Columbus Museum Inc$52,09111%
Ogden Museum of Southern Art$50,00011%
Katonah Museum of Art$50,00013%
Southern Oregon University Foundation$50,00010%
El Paso Museum of Art Foundation$50,0001n/a
Spelman College$50,00010%
New Britain Museum of American Art Inc$45,06011%
Japanese American Museum of Oregon$44,63816%
Wichita Art Museum Inc$44,4501n/a
Museum Board of the City of Huntsville$39,83511%
Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc$36,50012%
Wichita State University Foundation$35,00010%
Honolulu Museum of Art$31,00010%
Bruce Museum Inc$30,21810%
Westmoreland Museum of American Art$30,00010%
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc$30,0001n/a
Amigos del Museo del Barrio Inc El Museo del Barrio$30,00010%
South Dakota State University$25,0001n/a
Sewell C Biggs Trust the Biggs Museum of American Art$25,0001n/a
Florida International University Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Inc$25,0001n/a
Clyfford Still Museum$25,00010%
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts$24,69010%
University of Utah$20,5501n/a
Anchorage Museum Association$20,0001n/a
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617$20,0001n/a
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$19,99610%
Grounds for Sculpture Inc$19,87010%
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc$18,0001n/a
Bennington Museum Inc$18,00011%
Museum of Art Ogunquit D/B/A Ogunquit Museum of Art$17,5001n/a
Boise Art Museum Inc$16,41411%
Dixon Gallery and Gardens$16,0001n/a
Newfields Inc$15,00010%
Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College Inc$15,00011%
Ohio Wesleyan University$15,00010%
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art$15,00011%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$14,53510%
James Madison University Foundation Inc$13,70010%
Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum$13,22010%
Rochester Institute of Technology$11,75010%
Orlando Museum of Art Inc$11,20010%
The Jewish Museum$11,20010%
Lancaster Museum & Public Art Foundation$11,000111%
University of Colorado Foundation$10,57510%
Fairplex Learning and Development Center$10,49310%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$10,00010%
Miami Dade College Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Thomas Cole Historic House$10,0001n/a
Reynolda House Inc$8,60010%
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art$8,50011%
The Trustees of Reservations$7,93710%
Iowa State University Foundation$7,82510%
Telfair Museum of Art Inc$7,2961n/a
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy$5,00010%
Cincinnati Museum Association$5,0001n/a
Columbia Museum of Art$5,00010%
Orange County Museum of Art$5,0001n/a
Yellowstone Art Museum$5,0001n/a
Taft Museum of Art$5,0001n/a
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc$5,00010%
Joslyn Art Museum$5,0001n/a
Pennsylvania State University$5,0001n/a
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$5,00010%
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc$5,00010%
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association$5,0001n/a
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc$5,00010%
University of Rochester$5,00010%
Peabody Essex Museum Inc$5,00010%
Friends of the Bass Museum Inc$5,00010%
The Barnes Foundation$5,00010%
Museum of Sonoma County$5,0001n/a
Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc$5,00010%
The American Swedish Institute$5,00010%
The Trustees of the Smith College$5,00010%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$5,00010%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Mint Museum of Art Inc$5,00010%
Plains Art Museum$5,00010%
Nebraska Art Association$5,00011%
Erie Art Museum$5,00010%
The Aspen Institute Inc$5,0001n/a
Kansas State University$5,0001n/a
De Ette Holden Cummer Museum Foundation$5,0001n/a
The City of Ontario Department of Museum Arts & Culture$5,0001n/a
The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$5,00010%
Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery$5,0001n/a
Suny New Paltz Foundation Inc$4,50010%
The Albany Museum of Art Incorpora$3,25010%
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico Inc$1,17810%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($699k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Art Bridges Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $38,735,676 over 2y, 20% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $389,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: $362,419 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $324,086 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMuseum Associates: $256,610 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsheville Art Museum Association Inc: $218,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $217,011 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMobile Museum of Art Inc: $197,290 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetThe Chrysler Museum Incorporated: $179,758 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum: $167,441 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetColumbus Museum of Art: $159,127 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHudson River Museum of Westchester: $134,301 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAkron Art Museum: $133,185 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMattatuck Historical Society: $86,569 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $83,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy Art Museum Inc: $81,836 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $81,600 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Toledo Museum of Art: $74,639 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRobert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc: $72,001 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAllentown Art Museum: $65,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKenyon College: $64,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $63,896 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Museum of Art and Light Inc: $59,517 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $52,793 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Columbus Museum Inc: $52,091 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOgden Museum of Southern Art: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKatonah Museum of Art: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSouthern Oregon University Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpelman College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Britain Museum of American Art Inc: $45,060 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJapanese American Museum of Oregon: $44,638 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMuseum Board of the City of Huntsville: $39,835 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $36,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWichita State University Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHonolulu Museum of Art: $31,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBruce Museum Inc: $30,218 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWestmoreland Museum of American Art: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmigos del Museo del Barrio Inc El Museo del Barrio: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida International University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClyfford Still Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $24,690 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $19,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrounds for Sculpture Inc: $19,870 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBennington Museum Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBoise Art Museum Inc: $16,414 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNewfields Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAshley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 88.

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About Art Bridges Inc

How much does Art Bridges Inc give?
Art Bridges Inc reported 188 grants totaling $15,165,023 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Art Bridges Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (89%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Art Bridges Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Alice L Walton School of Medicine ($249M), Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ($39M), Terra Foundation for American Art ($1.1M).
Does Art Bridges Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Art Bridges Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Art Bridges Inc based?
Art Bridges Inc is based in TX.

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 140 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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