· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| KINOSAITO INC | $100,000 |
| PIQUA ARTS COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
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: 89% of grant dollars ($63M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($7.4M) is mapped below.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($7.4M)
4 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
92 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 50 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO7× · 2018–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +34%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2021–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +69%
- 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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
250 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. 250 of the 325 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.
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- 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 The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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