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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts at a glance

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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$987k
Granted FY2024still arriving
105
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$430kEnvironment$350kCommunity Improvement$159kHousing & Shelter$145kCivil Rights$142kScience & Tech$124kHealth$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $192k
  • $10k–50k64 grants · $720k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chicago Architecture Biennial$75,000
Ying Lu Lucy Wang$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
The Jewish Museum$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Prospect New Orleans (US Biennials Inc)$15,000
A Project 83 Inc$15,000
Carnegie Museum of Art$15,000
Tom Carruthers & Jennifer Newsom$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
The Center for Independent Documentary$12,500
Lydia Kallipoliti & Areti Markopoulou$12,500
Syracuse University$10,000
Dongola$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Materials & Applications: $10k → 14%Chicago Architecture Biennial: $75k → 14%Chicago Architecture Biennial: $75k → 14%Chicago Architecture Biennial: $75k → 14%Chicago Architecture Biennial: $50k → 14%Chicago Architecture Biennial: $20k → 14%A Project 83 Inc: $15k → 17%A Project 83 Inc: $10k → 17%A Project 83 Inc: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 67 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 89 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
389

Total granted

$1.7M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

33%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $773k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    ANYONE CORPORATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $55k · revenue +67%
  • LC
    Landmark Columbus Foundation Inc
    3× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +57%
  • DH
    Design History Foundation Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • S
    SPACES
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -68%
  • MS
    MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +19%
  • TS
    The Serpentine Trust
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
4
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Arts and Design

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

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
9
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
10
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
11
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Architecture Inc; the most unlike its peers is Terreform Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 547 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
50/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+158 more: $2,178,425 · Other+158 moreChicago Architecture Foundation: $80,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Architecture…STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureSTOREFRONT FOR ART A…ANYONE CORPORATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureANYONE CORPORATIONMuseum of Modern Art: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtLAMPO INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureLAMPO INCSPACES: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSPACESDesign History Foundation Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureDesign History Found…QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $23,800 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $197,500 · Arts & Culture+16 moreCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $295,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO AR…A Project 83 Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesA Project …ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $55,000 · EducationLandmark Columbus Foundation Inc: $40,000 · EducationTHE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $27,000 · EducationTHE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN: $22,500 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $15,000 · EducationAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture: $15,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $15,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $10,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $10,000 · EducationMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentTERREFORM INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,178,425Arts & Culture$616,300Human Services$325,000Education$239,500Environment$30,000Philanthropy$20,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $295,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetANYONE CORPORATION: $55,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $55,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetLandmark Columbus Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAMPO INC: $35,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetSPACES: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDesign History Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA Project 83 Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $27,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetELMHURST ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $23,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTERREFORM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRICK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoudreaders Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK RECONSTRUCTION COLLECTIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDEL VAZ PROJECTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSoberscove Press: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANYONE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Landmark Columbus Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds LAMPO INC ↗
  • Who funds SPACES ↗
  • Who funds Design History Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds A Project 83 Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ELMHURST ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS ↗
  • Who funds THE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION ↗
  • Who funds Ragdale Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Terra Foundation for …The Andrew W Mellon F…The Andy Warhol Found…The Jaffe Family Foun…John D and Catherine …The Ford FoundationThe J Paul Getty TrustKpf Foundation Co Koh…The Daniel and Estrel…Teiger FoundationMichael Asher Foundat…Jahn Foundation
Terra Foundation for American ArtIL31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Terra Foundation for American Art · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Jaffe Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Kpf Foundation Co Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC · The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Family Foundation · Teiger Foundation · Michael Asher Foundation · Jahn Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 547 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home