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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.

$505k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$247k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.9MEducation$123kEmployment$34kEnvironment$9kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $367k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC$247,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$120,000
NEW MUSIC USA$35,000
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM$15,000
MUTUAL MENTORSHIP FOR MUSICIANS$15,000
ANGEL CITY ARTS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$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
HARVEST WORKS INC$5,000
ARTS NOVA WORKSHOP$5,000
PIANO SPHERES$4,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SIGNAL CULTURE: $10k → 11%NEW MUSIC USA: $71k → 17%NEW MUSIC USA: $62k → 20%SIGNAL CULTURE: $10k → 11%SIGNAL CULTURE: $10k → 11%NEW MUSIC USA: $35k → 17%NEW MUSIC USA: $10k → 20%SIGNAL CULTURE: $10k → 11%SIGNAL CULTURE: $10k → 11%MUTUAL MENTORSHIP FOR MUSICIANS: $15k → 17%BLANK FORMS: $8k → 20%SIGNAL CULTURE: $10k → 11%JAZZ BAKERY INC: $10k → 14%SIGNAL CULTURE: $10k → 11%MUTUAL MENTORSHIP FOR MUSICIANS: $11k → 17%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $12k → 14%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $10k → 14%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $10k → 14%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $10k → 14%EIGHTH BLACKBIRD: $8k → 14%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $10k → 14%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $10k → 14%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $15k → 20%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $10k → 14%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $15k → 20%ANGEL CITY ARTS: $10k → 14%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $15k → 20%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $15k → 20%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $15k → 20%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $15k → 20%HARVEST WORKS INC: $15k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $11k → 20%HARVEST WORKS INC: $10k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $11k → 20%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $10k → 20%ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: $10k → 20%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 20%DUB LABFUTURE ROOTS: $6k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $120k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $247k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $223k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $122k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $120k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $80k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $72k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $72k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $52k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $16k → 17%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
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NM
TN
HI
OK
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 31 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
26

Total granted

$1.9M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

74%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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

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Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalEducationOther
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

  • RI
    ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +80%
  • NM
    NEW MUSIC USA INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +45%
  • IP
    ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • JB
    JAZZ BAKERY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
BlackBox Ensemble Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
3
On the Boards

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.

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4
Foundation for Modern Opera
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5
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
6
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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7
Qubit New Music

Promotion of the Arts

Arts & Culture
8
Ensemble Robot Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Constella Arts

Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.

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10
Performance Space 122 Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
12
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
22/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $1,003,500 · Arts & CultureROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INCNEW MUSIC USA INC: $178,050 · Arts & CultureNEW MUSIC USA INCISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureISSUE PROJECT ROOM INCANGEL CITY ARTS: $82,000 · Arts & CultureHARVESTWORKS INC: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $300,670 · Arts & Culture+25 moreSIGNAL CULTURE INC: $40,000 · OtherSIGNAL CULTUR…Digital Divide Data: $34,000 · OtherDigital Divid…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual gr…MUTUAL MENTORSHIP FOR MUSICIANS: $26,000 · OtherMUTUAL MENTOR…ELASTIC ARTS: $20,300 · OtherELASTIC ARTSHOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATER (HERE): $15,000 · OtherHOME FOR CONT…FEED MEDIA ART CENTER: $10,000 · OtherJAZZ BAKERY INC: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $56,000 · Other+14 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $120,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationMOLOKAI LAND TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentPECONIC BAYKEEPER INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE SAVONG FOUNDATION: $3,300 · PhilanthropySURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL (USA): $1,000 · International
Arts & Culture$1,739,220Other$251,300Education$122,500Environment$6,000Philanthropy$3,300International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $1,003,500 over 9y, 13% of budgetNEW MUSIC USA INC: $178,050 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC: $115,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetANGEL CITY ARTS: $82,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetHARVESTWORKS INC: $60,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetParallel Studios Inc: $45,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetCOAXIAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetDigital Divide Data: $34,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $31,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLANK FORMS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDUNES ART FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOUTPOST ARTISTS RESOURCES INC D/B/A CUTS & BURNS RESIDENCY: $15,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPiano Spheres: $14,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetExperimental Sound Studio: $9,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCircuit Network: $8,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFUTURE ROOTS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLIDE: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC SPACE ONE: $5,420 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMOLOKAI LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMISHINNAH PRODUCTIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFire Museum Presents: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetVISION INTO ARTS PRESENTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MY HERO PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL (USA): $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPECONIC BAYKEEPER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 OUTPOST ARTISTS RESOURCES INC D/B/A CUTS & BURNS RESIDENCY ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 MOLOKAI LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MISHINNAH PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Fire Museum Presents ↗

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.

New Music USA IncThe Amphion Foundatio…The Aaron Copland Fun…Mid Atlantic Arts IncRobert D Bielecki Fou…Participant IncThe New York Communit…The Andy Warhol Found…The Howard Gilman Fou…Golden Rule FoundationPerenchio FoundationThe Map Fund Inc
New Music USA IncNY25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mediathe Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mediathe Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–60%
    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 59 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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