· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $966k
- $50k–250k42 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL | $3,800,000 |
| GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO | $3,500,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS | $1,250,000 |
| PEN AMERICAN CENTER | $666,667 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $500,000 |
| SWISS INSTITUTE | $340,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION | $220,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ASHEVILLE GLASS ART SCHOOL AKA NORTH CAROLINA GLASS CENTER | $100,000 |
| KINOSAITO INC | $100,000 |
| NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $100,000 |
| WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE | $100,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $100,000 |
| PIQUA ARTS COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $100,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($63M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($7.4M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($7.4M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 56 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2021–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +69%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO2× · 2018–2023 · $4.6M · revenue +34%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +20% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - SMART MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2023 · $3.2M
- V1VESSEL - 1961 TO TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2.8M
- SISMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
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.
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…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Steven Myron Holl Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
250 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. 250 of the 326 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds SWISS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSCONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
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: 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
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 Helen Frankenthaler 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.
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bakehouse Art Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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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