· Private foundation
Art Matters Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $241k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RARECESS ACTIVITIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue -32%
- LMLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +4%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2019–2024 · $16k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
Believing the cultivation of new art and ideas is essential to human progress, our mission is to advocate for and support artists' communities, in order to advance the endeavors of artists.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
Dedicated to ensuring greater representation, equity and opportunities for asian american artists and cultural organizations through resource sharing, promotion and community building. the alliance builds and supports their community…
Cultivating a vibrant network of artists who create community and impact culture.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 239 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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 Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Art Matters Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Art Matters Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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