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FRENCH AMERICAN MUSEUM EXCHANGE INC
Frame is a coalition of 29 art museums dedicated to promoting french- american cooperation in the cultural arena concerning museums, their collections, and their professional staffs.
$30k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Arts & Culture$156kOther$30k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
educationresearchsterling francinefrancine clarkhistoryworks
2020
buffalofineeducational
2021
workscollection
2022
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2023
buffaloresearchsterling francinefrancine clarkhistoryworks
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$10,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 78% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$102k · 5 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
7
Total granted
$102k
$75k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+61%
+34%
Still filing today
100%
71%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2020–2021 · $24k · revenue +61%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM2× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +62%- TCTHE CLARK INSTITUTE2× · 2019–2023 · $19k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +56%
- NANELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $11k
- DMDENVER MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -43%
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.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
The philadelphia museum of art is committed to being the cultural heart of philadelphia. (sch o)pma is a national and international destination for art, but first and foremost we are philadelphia's museum for all the many diverse…
Arts & Culture
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Baltimore Museum of Art
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, (see sch. o) embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the…
Arts & Culture
3
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
Arts & Culture
4
The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
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San Diego Museum of Art
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Inspire diverse audiences through exhibitions, education, publications & collections.
Arts & Culture
7
Museum of Fine Arts
The museum of fine arts houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art in order to encourage inquiry and to heighten public understanding and…
Arts & Culture
8
Tucson Museum of Art
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful, engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art connects people from around the world (Continued in Schedule O)
Arts & Culture
10
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.
Education
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney museum of american art is a museum devoted to american art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Arts and Design
The mission of the museum of arts and design (mad) is to collect, display, and interpret objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. in its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum Associates and the most unlike its peers is Sterling and Francine Clark Art. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$156,416Other$29,940
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 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CLARK INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DENVER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS ART 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.
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation FRENCH AMERICAN MUSEUM EXCHANGE 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 060653111 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to French American Museum Exchange Inc?
Find your warmest path to French American Museum Exchange Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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