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Contempo Communications for the Arts Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
3
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
All Faith Unitarian Congregation$6,050
Obama Foundation$100
The Southern Poverty Law Center$100
NRDC$100
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: $100 → 8%Our Children's Trust: $100 → 16%Sarah Lawrence College: $6k → 9%EARLY RISERS AAU BASKETBALL CO AAU BOYS BASKETBALL: $2k → 13%EARLY RISERS AAU BASKETBALL CO AAU BOYS BASKETBALL: $1k → 14%National Resource Defense Council: $150 → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30 → 20%POPULATION CONNECTION: $50 → 14%WGCU: $300 → 11%Vote Smart: $100 → 10%The Southern Poverty Law Center: $100 → 18%CONSERVATION NORTHWEST: $200 → 9%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $25 → 13%NRDC: $100 → 14%National Wildlife Federation: $50 → 6%Union of Concerned Scientiists: $100 → 8%Our Children's Trust: $100 → 16%Sarah Lawrence College: $6k → 9%National Resource Defense Council: $100 → 17%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25 → 14%WGCU: $100 → 11%Vote Smart: $100 → 10%Union of Concerned Scientists: $100 → 8%Sarah Lawrence College: $5k → 9%NAT RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL: $50 → 17%WGCU: $100 → 11%VOTE SMART: $100 → 10%UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: $100 → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $150 → 17%WGCU: $100 → 11%VOTE SMART: $100 → 10%UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: $100 → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $50 → 17%All Faith Unitarian Congregation: $6k → 11%VOTE SMART: $100 → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA: $50 → 17%All Faith Unitarian Congregation: $5k → 11%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25 → 17%All Faith Unitarian Congregation: $5k → 11%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25 → 17%All Faiths Unitarian Congregation: $4k → 11%Mano a Mano: $100 → 17%ALL FAITH UNITARIAN CONGREGATION: $4k → 11%Mano a Mano: $100 → 17%ALL FAITH UNITARIAN CONGREGATION: $3k → 11%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $50 → 17%ALL FAITH UNITARIAN CONGREGATION: $3k → 11%ALL FAITH UNITARIAN CONGREGATION: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 13 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$57k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+77%

Still filing today

46%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +2%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $500 · revenue +12%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $300 · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • AF
    All Faiths Unitarian Congregation
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $800
  • CN
    CONSERVATION NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2018 · $200
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
7
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
8
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
9
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
11
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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12
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lee Interfaith for Empowerment Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

All Faith Unitarian Congregation: $32,955 · OtherAll Faith Unitarian CongregationAll Faiths Unitarian Congregation: $4,100 · OtherAll Faiths Unitarian CongregationEARLY RISERS AAU BASKETBALL CO AAU BOYS BASKETBALL: $2,800 · OtherEARLY RISERS AAU BASKETBALL CO AAU BOYS BASKETBALL+16 more: $3,155 · Other+16 moreSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $17,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE+1 more: $25 · EducationLee Interfaith For Empowerment Inc: $1,100 · ReligionTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $600 · Arts & CultureTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $500 · InternationalNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $25 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$43,010Education$17,025Religion$1,100Arts & Culture$600International$500Environment$325Crime & Legal$100

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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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