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Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation

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.

$311k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$185kEnvironment$100kCommunity Improvement$50kSocial Science$50kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION$25,000
PROJECT ROW HOUSES$25,000
NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ARTS$25,000
GOODYEAR ARTS INC$25,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE TRUSTEES OF DAVIDSON COLLEGE$25,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$25,000
REALIZE IMPACT$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$25,000
NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE$25,000
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC$25,000
BARNES FOUNDATION$25,000
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER$10,800
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%REALIZE IMPACT: $25k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ND
MN
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
NE
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX

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.

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 8% of Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation’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, 12% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.2% 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$910k · 12 repeat orgs$979k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
34

Total granted

$910k
$743k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

75%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TH
    THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS
    4× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +55%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +25%
  • VC
    VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIOUX CITY ART CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • AD
    AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • PC
    PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -12%

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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
Art Explorium
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4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Arnot Art Museum

The arnot art museum is an exhibiting and collecting fine arts museum, accredited by the american association of museums. the museum exhibits its permanent collection of 17th-19th century european paintings and sculpture; 19th century…

Arts & Culture
8
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
9
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
10
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
11
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

The virginia museum of contemporary art (virginia moca) is a non-profit institution which exists to foster awareness, exploration, and understanding of the significant art of our time. accredited by the american alliance of museums,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1708 Gallery Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kassan Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Local History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 58 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
22/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENSCENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATIONSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTSCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUISNEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+26 more — $600,800 · Arts & Culture+26 moreTHE BRIDGE PROGRESSIVE ARTS INITIATIVE — $110,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE PROGRESSIVE ARTS IN…OGDEN CONTEMPORARY ARTS — $75,000 · OtherOGDEN CONTEMPORARY ARTSSANDHILLS INSTITUTE — $50,000 · OtherSANDHILLS INSTITUTESIOUX CITY ART CENTER — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $25,000 · Other1708 Gallery Inc — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherCITY AS LIVING LABORATORY — $25,000 · OtherNY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS — $25,000 · OtherDIGITAL STONE PROJECT — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · OtherTHE HERITAGE CENTER - RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL — $20,000 · Other+3 more — $30,000 · Other+3 moreSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA…Davidson College — $50,000 · EducationDavidson Col…VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationVIRGINIA UNI…UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY A…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNI…TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH F…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $10,000 · EducationRealize Impact — $25,000 · Human ServicesLocate Arts TN — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,175,800Other$510,000Education$210,000Human Services$25,000Community Improvement$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS — $100,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION — $100,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS — $100,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetDavidson College — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawndale Art & Performance Center — $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget1708 Gallery Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGUTTENBERG ARTS A NJ NONPROFIT CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOM TOM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetWIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlasstire — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSWISS INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURNAWAY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetKassan Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS SOUTHEAST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLocate Arts TN — $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

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.

The Andy Warhol Found…Via Art Fund IncTerra Foundation for …The Henry Luce Founda…Teiger FoundationHelen Frankenthaler F…Windgate Charitable F…Mid-America Arts Alli…Charlottesville Area …The Andrew W Mellon F…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Via Art Fund Inc · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Teiger Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Mid-America Arts Alliance · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Elizabeth Firestone Graham 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report 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

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.

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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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