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Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum

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.

$6k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$73M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving6$6k83%
FY20231$2k0%
FY20222$3k50%
FY20202$2k50%
FY20191$3kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Artist Trust$10,50050%
Tacoma Art Museum$1,50010%
Northwest African American Museum$1,00010%
On the Boards$50010%
Seattle Art Museum$25010%
Shunpike$20010%
National Nordic Museum$17510%
Artsfund$10010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArtist Trust: $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTacoma Art Museum: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest African American Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOn the Boards: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Art Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShunpike: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtsfund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Jon and Mary Shir…ArtsfundThe Conru FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Bagley and Virginia W…Pruzan FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…M J Murdock Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Seattle FoundationWA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation · Artsfund · The Conru Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Bagley and Virginia Wright Foundation · Pruzan Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum

How much does Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum give?
Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum reported 6 grants totaling $5,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Artist Trust ($11k), Tacoma Art Museum ($2k), Northwest African American Museum ($1k).
Does Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum 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 Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, Artsfund.
Where is Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum based?
Charles & Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum is based in WA.

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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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