New York · Private foundation
Helen Frankenthaler 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.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 105
- Grants FY2024
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 119
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 30
- Total assets, FY2024
- $173M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 98 | $14M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $25M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $7.5M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 119 | $7.5M | 66% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $3.1M | 58% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $7.0M | 65% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $2.2M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $877k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $5,714,900 | 7 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $5,050,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc | $2,252,500 | 6 | 29% |
| Pen American Center Inc | $2,000,001 | 3 | 4% |
| Provincetown Art Association and Museum Inc | $1,815,000 | 6 | 39% |
| New Britain Museum of American Art Inc | $1,620,000 | 4 | 44% |
| World Monuments Fund Inc | $1,500,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $1,450,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Swiss Institute | $1,440,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Bennington College Corporation | $1,206,840 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 245 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Terra Foundation for American Art · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Ag Foundation · Via Art Fund Inc · Robert Lehman Foundation Inc · Teiger Foundation · Ibm International Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc
- How much does Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc give?
- Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc reported 105 grants totaling $14,412,827 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 119 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (13%), Environment (3%).
- Who are Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Art Institute of Chicago ($5.7M), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($5.0M), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc ($2.3M).
- Does Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Terra Foundation for American Art, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
- Where is Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc based?
- Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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