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David Bermant Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART | $27,278 |
| HARVEST WORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE ARTS FUND | $20,000 |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA | $10,000 |
| UNITE TO LIGHT | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON FOUNDATION | $4,650 |
| THE MIMI GARRARD DANCE COMPANY INC | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BIBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART4× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +75%
- MTMOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +20%
- TATATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INCone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -26%
- HDHARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ART CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PAPan American Musical Art Research Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +449% · 36% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Vcfa is a global community of artists continually redefining what it means to be an arts college. we measure our success by our ability to foster the excellence of emerging and established practitioners. we believe that the arts are…
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Institute of the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Pan American Musical Art Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds FORMATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Mimi Garrard Dance Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLYN GLASOE BAILEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNITE TO LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Pan American Musical Art Research Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 David Bermant Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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