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Dame Jillian and Dr Arthur M Sackler Fdn for the Arts Sciences & Humanities

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.

$151k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$738kInternational$127kHealth$100kEducation$60kEnvironment$58kScience & Tech$40kSocial Science$8k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEKING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (USA)$50,000
VOICEXPERIENCE FOUNDATION$32,111
HUMANITY EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR M SACKLE$31,377
FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH$15,000
BROOKLYN MUSEUM$12,000
BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM$1,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 65% of grant dollars ($736k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 35% that went abroad ($395k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%PEKING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (USA): $50k → 7%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION: $43k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $40k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $35k → 8%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION: $43k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $20k → 8%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION: $17k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $15k → 8%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION: $13k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $10k → 8%FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION: $13k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $10k → 8%CHINA INSTITUTE: $140k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $5k → 8%CHINA INSTITUTE: $30k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $5k → 8%CHINA INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%CHINA INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%CHINA INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%CHINA INSTITUTE: $8k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OXFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US — 35% of all-years giving ($395k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
China$395k · 7 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 40% of Dame Jillian and Dr Arthur M Sackler Fdn for the Arts Sciences & Humanities’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, 36% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Dame Jillian and Dr Arthur M Sackler Fdn for the Arts Sciences & Humanitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 62% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$666k · 6 repeat orgs$464k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$666k
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+15%

Still filing today

50%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalScience & TechHealthEducationOther

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

  • FP
    FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +22%
  • Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IE
    INTERSECTION EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR M SA
    one grant, 2018 · $190k
  • EN
    ENCHANTED NATURE EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR
    one grant, 2017 · $58k
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +15%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…

Education
5
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
6
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
7
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
8
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science
9
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

10
New York University

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.

Education
11
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

12
Association for Computing Machinery Inc

We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHINA INSTITUTE — $238,000 · OtherCHINA INSTITUTEINTERSECTION EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR M SA — $190,145 · OtherINTERSECTION EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR M SABOTANIC EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR M SACKLER — $85,203 · OtherBOTANIC EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR M SACKLERENCHANTED NATURE EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR — $57,833 · OtherENCHANTED NATURE EXHIBIT AT ARTHURHUMANITY EXHIBIT AT ARTHUR M SACKLE — $31,377 · Other+5 more — $56,864 · Other+5 moreFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC — $126,750 · InternationalFOREIGN POLICY AS…PEKING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (USA) — $50,000 · InternationalPEKING UNIVERSITY…THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN F…THE V O I C EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION — $32,111 · Arts & CultureTHE V O I C EX…THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN I…Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $100,000 · HealthFoundation…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $40,000 · Science & TechBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education
Other$659,422International$176,750Arts & Culture$144,111Health$100,000Science & Tech$40,000Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC — $126,750 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $100,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEKING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (USA) — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
  • Who funds PEKING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (USA)
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
  • Who funds THE V O I C EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
  • Who funds BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Dame Jillian and Dr Arthur M Sackler Fdn for the Arts Sciences & Humanities 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dame Jillian and Dr Arthur M Sackler Fdn for the Arts Sciences & Humanities?

    Find your warmest path to Dame Jillian and Dr Arthur M Sackler Fdn for the Arts Sciences & Humanities 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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