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Contempo Communications for the Arts 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,050
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$48k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentReligionArts & CultureFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther
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 arriving4$6k50%
FY20243$12k33%
FY20239$11k0%
FY202210$10k50%
FY20212$4k0%
FY202011$6k36%
FY20195$5k80%
FY20189$4k67%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$38kEducation$17kYouth Development$3kPublic Benefit$1kArts & Culture$800Environment$625Science & Tech$575Health$275Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSarah Lawrence College: $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLee Interfaith For Empowerment Inc: $1,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for National Independence in Politics: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $25 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 13.

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How do I get to Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc?

Find your warmest path to Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc

How much does Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc give?
Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc reported 4 grants totaling $6,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (61%), Education (27%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sarah Lawrence College ($17k), Lee Interfaith For Empowerment Inc ($1k), The Barack Obama Foundation ($600).
Does Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Contempo Communications for the Arts 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.
Where is Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc based?
Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc is based in FL.

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 27 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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