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Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts at a glance

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Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$193kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$624k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HYDE COLLECTION$32,700
FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM$10,000
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK$3,000
CITYARTS$1,500
02The need
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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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM: $10k → 8%HILLSTROM MUSEUM OF ART GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $4k → 9%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $22k → 22%LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE: $5k → 9%NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 9%THE HYDE COLLECTION: $33k → 10%ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK: $3k → 17%NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $32k → 14%THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $2k → 16%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 11%SIDNEY AND LOIS ESKENAZI MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 18%BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $4k → 19%DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM: $10k → 9%THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE: $3k → 17%THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE: $2k → 17%THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE: $1k → 17%CITYARTS: $5k → 17%CITYARTS: $2k → 17%MADISON SQUARE PARK: $20k → 17%MADISON SQUARE PARK: $10k → 17%MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2k → 17%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

MN
NY
MA
IN
PA
MD
TX
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 4 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$57k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+56%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k
  • DA
    DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +8%
  • CI
    CITYARTS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • NM
    NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • TN
    THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +38%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -15%
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.

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Art Explorium
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3
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
4
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
7
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
8
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
12
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cityarts 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

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 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 · OtherNEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ARTTHE HYDE COLLECTION: $32,700 · OtherTHE HYDE COLLECTIONIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSIDNEY AND LOIS ESKENAZI MUSEUM OF ART: $9,500 · OtherSIDNEY AND LOIS ESKENAZI MUSEUM OF ARTTHE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE: $5,500 · OtherLOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE: $4,500 · Other+1 more: $4,000 · OtherTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $31,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTERPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $22,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARKFRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART INCNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INCCITYARTS INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureCITYARTS INCBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $3,800 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 · Environment
Other$121,200Arts & Culture$101,300Environment$2,000

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 budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $31,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYARTS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $1,500 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 17 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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