· Private foundation
Cunniffe Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| Glimmer Glass Festival | $100,000 |
| Yellow Farmhouse Education Ctr | $45,000 |
| Sacred Heart Greenwich | $25,000 |
| Columbia University | $25,000 |
| Fordham University | $20,500 |
| Whitney Museum of America | $13,500 |
| Legacy Global Foundation | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFordham University7× · 2018–2025 · $12M · revenue +40%
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC3× · 2021–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +31%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION3× · 2021–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SSMITHSONIANone grant, 2019 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500k
- ATAvon Theatreone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cunniffe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cunniffe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc: 5% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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