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Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $369k
- $250k+4 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $9,000,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $528,000 |
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $480,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $329,300 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $200,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $85,500 |
| NEW MUSEUM | $83,750 |
| RENAISSANCE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $20,000 |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| CIRCLE OF HOPE - WELLSPRING HEALTH ACCESS (87-1195144) | $10,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| ASPEN PUBLIC RADIO | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART8× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +0% · 37% of their budget
- NMNew Museum of Contemporary Art9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +6%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago8× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- DCDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $502k · revenue +150%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +102%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNRWA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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)
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The international center of photography is a museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography. icp creates programs of the highest quality to advance knowledge of the medium. these include exhibitions,…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Our mission is to educate, inspire, and empower creative and design leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is 5Point Film Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 62 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO OPERA THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF VIENNA INC ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Americans for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds NPR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds J STREET ↗
- Who funds CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Pathfinders ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Broad Art Foundation · Cardinal Four Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Edlis - Neeson Foundation Nfp 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.
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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