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Century Arts Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Century Arts Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Ucla Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Century Arts Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $309k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY STREET THEATRE | $60,000 |
| BARD PRISON INITIATIVE (BPI) BARD COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END | $50,000 |
| AMIGOS DE EDUCACION DE ALAMOS | $30,000 |
| DELFINO ROBLES NAVARRO PRESIDENTE DEL CONSEJO BANCO ALIMENTOS DE NAVOJOA | $25,000 |
| BARD PRISON INITIATIVE (BPI) BARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SAG HARBOR WHALING AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| LAS COMADRES DE ALAMOS AC | $10,000 |
| ALMA DE JESUS ROBINSON BOURS CASTELO | $10,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE OUTREACH SOLUTIONS (SOS) | $10,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC | $5,000 |
| SAG HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| SAG HARBOR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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 17% of Century Arts Foundation’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, 68% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 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
- TPTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $225k · revenue +96%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I5× · 2017–2023 · $184k · revenue +63%
- GEGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $161k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- UFUCLA FILM TV ARCHIVEone grant, 2017 · $100k
- JJJOHN JERMAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +22%
- EAEMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE COMAPNYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
The Museum engages the community in exploring the diversity of our whaling heritage and its impacts to enrich and inform our lives.
The stated purpose of the museum shall be:a.to preserve long island's maritime history and heritage for educational purposes.b.to purchase, collect, restore and preserve boats, vessels and related equipment having to do with the past and…
The sag harbor cinema arts center, inc. plans to restore the sag harbor cinema and to preserve the historic nature of main street in downtown sag harbor, new york, provide the community of the east end of long island, new york,exposure to…
The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
The southampton history museum preserves and promotes the history and culture of southampton by engaging diverse audiences in our shared heritage.
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
The california museum - home of the california hall of fame - engages, educates and enlightens people about california's rich history, its diversity, and its unique influence on the world of ideas, innovation, art, and culture. through…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Parrish Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Outreach Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CUTCHOGUE-NEW SUFFOLK HSTRCL CNCL ↗
- Who funds OAXACA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR COMM FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Scottsdale International Film Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN JERMAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Outreach Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds RESPLANDOR INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE SAG HARBOR HISTORICAL 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: The New York Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Century Arts Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.