· Private foundation
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FRIENDS OF THE MENNELLO MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $38,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| NYFA (NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS) | $20,000 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN | $10,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL OF DRAWING PAINTING & SCULPTURE | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR ART LAW | $10,000 |
| THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FREE ARTS NYC | $10,000 |
| THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| TRIANGLE ARTS ASSOCIATION LTD | $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 (FY17–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
142 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- WAWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2020–2022 · $155k · revenue +20%
- LMLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $107k · revenue +4%
- SISTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BMBRUCE MUSEUM INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +10%
- PAPUBLIC ART FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -4%
- SISWISS INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +82%
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.
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…
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
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A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
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,…
Teen art salon provides young people open-door, free-of-charge art instruction and materials to establish and advance individual studio practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art Resources Transfer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
120 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. 120 of the 177 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 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Bronx Museum of the Arts ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTH CELEBRATIONSINC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Art Students League Of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds HECKSCHER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Nassau County Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds SMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
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: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Ag Foundation · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
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 Milton and Sally Avery Arts 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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.