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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.

$800k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.7MEducation$250kHealth$50kPhilanthropy$50k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $170k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $150k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 9 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$2.8M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+30%

Still filing today

89%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MC
    MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    3× · 2019–2025 · $250k · revenue +54%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +76%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • PH
    PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN RAIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • VM
    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
4
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
5
Berggruen Institute
Education
6
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
7
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Peabody Essex Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Contemporary; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - PRINCETON ART MUSEUM: $1,370,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - PRINCETON ART …+8 more: $65,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $450,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $155,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $110,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION+8 more: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+8 morePHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $320,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHI…MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $250,000 · EducationMOORE COLLE…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 · EducationTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $5,000 · Employment
Other$1,435,000Arts & Culture$940,000Human Services$320,000Education$300,000Philanthropy$50,000Employment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $450,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $320,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIA ART FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Locks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Locks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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