· Private foundation
Foundation for Arts Initiatives
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $701k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LEBANESE ASSOCIATION FOR PLASTIC ARTS ASHKAL ALWAN | $60,000 |
| ANADOLU KULTUR SANAT TANITIM ILETISIM YAYIN BILGISAYAR EGITIM DANISMANLIK | $50,000 |
| LABORATORY FOR THE URBAN COMMONS | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF RADICAL IMAGINATION | $50,000 |
| MUZEUM SZTUKI NOWOCZESNEJ W WASZAWIE (MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN WARSAW) | $50,000 |
| WHAT HOW AND FOR WHOMWHW | $50,000 |
| DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE ART RESIDENCY | $50,000 |
| KHALIL SAKAKINI CULTURAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| FUNDACION ARTE Y SOLIDARIDAD | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| AL MA'MAL FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART | $30,000 |
| ARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FUNDACION DE LOS COMUNES | $30,000 |
| ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE AKA | $30,000 |
| EUROPAISCHES INSTITUT FUR PROGRESSIVE KULTURPOLITIK (EIPCP) | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 2% of grant dollars ($138k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 98% that went abroad ($6.9M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 98% of all-years giving ($6.9M)
62 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $463k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LEBANESE ASSOCIATION FOR PLASTIC ARTS ASHKAL ALWAN5× · 2020–2024 · $320k
- AIARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $230k
- WHWHAT HOW AND FOR WHOMWHW4× · 2020–2024 · $220k
Funded once
- YJYAYASAN JAKARTA BIENNALE (JAKARTA BIENNALE FOUNDATION)one grant, 2021 · $60k
- FCFUNDACION CASA TRES PATIOSone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FAFUNDACION ARKHE ARCHIVOS DE ARTE LATINOAMERICANOone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 261 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foundation for Arts Initiatives funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Arts Initiatives. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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