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Articulture Institute Inc at a glance

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Articulture Institute Inc

TO SERVE AS A CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL, AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETY WITHOUT PROFIT TO ITS OFFICERS OR MEMBERS, FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC GOOD.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Environment$3.3MArts & Culture$80kEducation$30kAnimals$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,247,447
Median grant
1
States reached
$548k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE KEMPNER INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING EDUCATION$3,247,447
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATTLE TRACK ARTS & PRESERVATION: $50k → 11%BOYCE THOMPSON ARBORETUM: $10k → 11%THE KEMPNER INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING EDUCATION: $3.2M → 14%TOHONO CHUL: $10k → 15%SHERMAN LIBRARY AND GARDENS: $5k → 10%SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $5k → 14%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $10k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 7%CATTLE TRACK ARTS & PRESERVATION: $30k → 11%COSANTI: $5k → 11%DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10k → 11%THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $15k → 11%THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
6
Tohono Chul Park Inc

We are a community oasis where reverence for the cultural and natural ecology of the sonoran desert region inspires responsible stewardship so that future generations may thrive.

Environment
7
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
8
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
9
Texas State Aquarium Association

The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…

Animals
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Center for Biological Diversity Inc

The center for biological diversity inc, works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. we do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and…

Animals
12
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Desert Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEMPNER INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING EDUCATION: $3,247,447 · OtherKEMPNER INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING EDUCATION+6 more: $45,000 · OtherCATTLE TRACK ARTS AND PRESERVATION: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL ARIZONA LAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $20,000 · EducationAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,292,447Arts & Culture$80,000Environment$30,000Education$20,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATTLE TRACK ARTS AND PRESERVATION: $80,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetTHE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYCE THOMPSON SOUTHWESTERN ARBORETUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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Arizona Community FoundationAZ13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Articulture Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Articulture Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 14 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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