· Private foundation
Locks 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - PRINCETON ART MUSEUM | $550,000 |
| MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $100,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| VIA ART FUND INC | $30,000 |
| THE BARNES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - PRINCETON ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $10,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–20, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- MCMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN3× · 2019–2025 · $250k · revenue +54%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +76%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- UCURSINUS COLLEGE - PHILLIP & MURIEL BERMAN MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TBTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
- TUTEMPLE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC - BURN CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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,…
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,…
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.
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)
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…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
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…
Pem offers thought-provoking experiences of the arts, humanities, and sciences to activate understanding of our shared humanity and to empower imagination and learning through experimentation. we steward, build, and make our collections…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Contemporary and the most unlike its peers is Moore College of Art and Design. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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
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 PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds VIA ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Fabric Workshop and Museum ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Locks 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.
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.