· Private foundation
Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MORDEN ART | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPRARY ART | $100,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| SAN FRANSICO MUSUM OF MODERN ART | $100,000 |
| DES MOINES ART CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $50,000 |
| CANTOR ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| NORTON SIMON MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| WORCHESTER ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $50,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- SLST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $3.2M · revenue +31%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2017–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +14%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART5× · 2018–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +125%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $700k
- HAHARVARD ART MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $250k
- CTCRANDELL THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +82% · 31% 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.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
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.
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…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
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).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Broad. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 73 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 81 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 ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds ART OMI INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds CRANDELL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTERLITZ HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
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: T Backer Fund Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · The Non Nobis Solum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% 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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