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LGT Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$671k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.4MHuman Services$2.3MEducation$459kPublic Safety & Disaster$300kEnvironment$185kSocial Science$23kReligion$500
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $577k
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CERF$200,000
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts$184,000
Penland School of Crafts$140,000
Toledo Museum of Art$52,500
Madison Square Park Conservancy$30,000
Ox-Bow School of Art Artists Reside$20,250
Museum of Fine Arts -Houston$15,000
Surface Design Association$12,000
ArtTable Inc$12,000
Aspen Institute$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Fuller Craft Museum: $18k → 8%The Trustees of Reservations deCord: $10k → 16%Craft in America: $20k → 14%ArtTable Inc: $12k → 17%Int'l Studio and Curatorial Program: $17k → 20%Menil Foundation: $80k → 16%Surface Design Association: $12k → 12%Surface Design Association: $12k → 14%Crystal Bridges: $275k → 8%Ox-Bow School of Art Artists Reside: $20k → 10%John Michael Kohler Arts Center: $1.1M → 9%Rhode Island School of Design: $50k → 14%Toledo Museum of Art: $53k → 18%School of the Art Institute of Chicago: $25k → 14%CERF: $35k → 9%Maryland Institute College of Art: $50k → 19%Haystack Mountain School of Crafts: $184k → 11%Isami Noguchi Foundation Garden Mus: $50k → 13%ArtTable Inc: $12k → 17%Int'l Studio and Curatorial Program: $17k → 20%John Michael Kohler Arts Center: $60k → 9%United States Artists: $25k → 14%CERF: $35k → 9%The Fabric Workshop and Museum: $20k → 22%Socrates Sculpture Park: $15k → 13%ArtTable Inc: $12k → 17%Int'l Studio and Curatorial Program: $16k → 20%John Michael Kohler Arts Center: $50k → 9%CERF: $30k → 9%The Fabric Workshop and Museum: $15k → 22%Urban Glass: $16k → 20%Kohler Foundation Inc: $1.2M → 9%Kohler Foundation Inc: $1.1M → 9%Tate Americas Foundation: $496k → 17%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $200k → 17%Greenwich House: $14k → 17%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $200k → 17%Greenwich House: $12k → 17%Greenwich House: $12k → 17%Cooper Hewitt Design Museum: $25k → 17%Solomon RGuggenheim Museum Fdtn: $20k → 17%Bard Graduate Center: $115k → 17%Bard Graduate Center: $15k → 17%Madison Square Park Conservancy: $60k → 17%Madison Square Park Conservancy: $30k → 17%Madison Square Park Conservancy: $30k → 17%Madison Square Park Conservancy: $20k → 17%El Museo del Barrio: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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VT
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MA
OH
PA
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RI
CA
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AR
NC
DC
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of LGT Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 17% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

LGT Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 18 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
35

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+8%

Still filing today

89%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentEnvironmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

  • KF
    KOHLER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +213%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2019–2024 · $417k · revenue +76%
  • CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • TA
    TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $496k · revenue +157%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $275k
  • MF
    Menil Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +51%

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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Art Explorium
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2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
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The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
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Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
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Baltimore Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is River Valley Arts Collective Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr19%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr19%71%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,485

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.

05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KOHLER FOUNDATION INC — $2,228,100 · OtherKOHLER FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $275,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBard Graduate Center — $130,000 · Other+19 more — $345,250 · Other+19 moreJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $1,170,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INCTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $495,500 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $417,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTPenland School Of Craft — $140,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $95,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more — $452,618 · Arts & Culture+20 moreHaystack Mountain School of Crafts — $194,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $50,000 · EducationMaryland Institute — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC — $300,000 · PhilanthropyMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $185,000 · EnvironmentARTTABLE INC — $66,000 · Public BenefitThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $35,000 · EmploymentPETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC — $10,000 · Employment
Other$2,978,350Arts & Culture$2,770,118Education$304,000Philanthropy$300,000Environment$185,000Public Benefit$66,000Employment$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKOHLER FOUNDATION INC — $2,228,100 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $1,170,000 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $495,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $417,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC — $300,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetHaystack Mountain School of Crafts — $194,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $185,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetPenland School Of Craft — $140,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARTTABLE INC — $66,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART — $52,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $50,018 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMaryland Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOUSE INC — $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION — $34,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFT IN AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC — $18,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Basketry Organization Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWATERFALL ARTS — $9,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRIVER VALLEY ARTS COLLECTIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHunterdon Art Museum — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN TAPESTRY ALLIANCE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Windgate Charitable F…The Andy Warhol Found…Milton and Sally Aver…Studio in a School As…The Henry Luce Founda…The Hyde and Watson F…Hillman Family Founda…The Andrew W Mellon F…Alan M & Mildred S Ra…The Pierre & Tana Mat…Helen Frankenthaler F…Terra Foundation for …
Windgate Charitable Foundation IncAR24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Studio in a School Association Inc · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Terra Foundation for American Art

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 LGT Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Hunterdon Art Museum — 9% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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: 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to LGT Foundation?

Find your warmest path to LGT Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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