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Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation 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.

$171k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 21
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving34$171k38%
FY202421$27k10%
FY202318$30k17%
FY202218$20k0%
FY202117$19k12%
FY202020$20k0%
FY201820$20k0%
FY201720$20kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$181kHealth$31kRecreation & Sports$28kEnvironment$23kEducation$15kAnimals$13kReligion$11kCivil Rights$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDia Center for the Arts Inc: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIsabella Geriatric Center Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJudd Foundation: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPrimary Information Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPrinted Matter Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Drawing Center Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetProspect Park Alliance Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSave a Pet Animal Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Little Opera Theater of Ny Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetAnthology Film Archives: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Brooklyn Rail Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCityarts Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Open Water Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetClimate Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 22.

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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.

The Cowles Charitable TrustNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Kraus Family Foundation · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc

How much does Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc give?
Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc reported 35 grants totaling $170,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Health (9%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
Who are Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dia Center for the Arts Inc ($23k), Isabella Geriatric Center Inc ($18k), Judd Foundation ($18k).
Does Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc based?
Carl Andre and Melissa L Kretschmer Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 40 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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