· Private foundation
Mediathe Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $367k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC | $247,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| NEW MUSIC USA | $35,000 |
| MUTUAL MENTORSHIP FOR MUSICIANS | $15,000 |
| ISSUE PROJECT ROOM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ANGEL CITY ARTS | $10,000 |
| BLANK FORMS | $8,000 |
| HAWAII CONTEMPORARY | $5,000 |
| PARALLEL STUDIOS | $5,000 |
| COAXIAL ARTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FEED MEDIA ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| ARTS NOVA WORKSHOP | $5,000 |
| HARVEST WORKS INC | $5,000 |
| PIANO SPHERES | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your 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 +60% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- RIROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +80%
- NMNEW MUSIC USA INC4× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +45%
- IPISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- JBJAZZ BAKERY INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Promotion of the Arts
Ensemble Robot is an organization dedicated to producing performances of new music and electronic music in the Boston area and bringing our Boston and New York based musicians and artists to festivals around the world. Our performing…
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Savong Foundation. 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 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 59 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 ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds HARVESTWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Parallel Studios Inc ↗
- Who funds COAXIAL ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Digital Divide Data ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BLANK FORMS INC ↗
- Who funds DUNES ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUTPOST ARTISTS RESOURCES INC D/B/A CUTS & BURNS RESIDENCY ↗
- Who funds Piano Spheres ↗
- Who funds Experimental Sound Studio ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds Circuit Network ↗
- Who funds FUTURE ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIDE ↗
- Who funds BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAMPO INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SPACE ONE ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds MISHINNAH PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI LAND TRUST ↗
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: New Music USA Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Robert D Bielecki Foundation Inc · Participant Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Golden Rule Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The Map Fund Inc
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 Mediathe 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.
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.