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Dry Farm 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.

$465k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$446kPhilanthropy$315kCommunity Improvement$60kEnvironment$50kHealth$50kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Benefit$25k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION$300,000
THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$56,500
THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM$18,500
ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Inner Sciences Foundation: $25k → 10%SONOMA BOTANICAL GARDEN: $50k → 9%ICA Fund: $10k → 10%ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30k → 17%Fair Democracy Engagement Fund: $25k → 14%New World Symphony Inc: $25k → 15%PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $300k → 10%The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation: $5k → 14%THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%Friends of the Bass Museum Inc: $13k → 15%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $20k → 17%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $35k → 15%Elton John AIDS Foundation: $25k → 17%Institute of Contemporary Art Miami INc: $25k → 15%THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $57k → 17%RUBELL MUSEUM: $5k → 15%THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $10k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM: $190k → 15%THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $15k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM: $19k → 15%TED Foundation INc: $25k → 17%Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami: $3k → 15%TED Foundation Inc: $25k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Dry Farm Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dry Farm Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$418k · 5 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$418k
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $222k · revenue +109%
  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    2× · 2023–2024 · $72k · revenue +13%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • TF
    TED FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • SB
    Sonoma Botanical Garden
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • NW
    NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -54%
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
Berggruen Institute
Education
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
The Broad Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
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
8
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
9
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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10
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
12
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Bass Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Botanical Garden. 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

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 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC: $221,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INCNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $71,500 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary ArtINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INCWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTTHE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATIONTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD …Sonoma Botanical Garden: $50,000 · OtherSonoma Botanical…THE INNER SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherTHE INNER SCIENC…THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherTHE GUGGENHEIM M…RUBELL MUSEUM: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherTED FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementICAFUND: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $25,000 · EducationELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$403,000Philanthropy$315,000Other$142,500Community Improvement$60,000Education$25,000Health$25,000Public Benefit$25,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC: $221,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $71,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTED FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSonoma Botanical Garden: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE INNER SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetICAFUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dry Farm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dry Farm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New World Symphony Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dry Farm Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dry Farm Foundation 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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