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Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$968k
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.6MEducation$338kEnvironment$248kYouth Development$221kHuman Services$189kRecreation & Sports$103kReligion$98kCrime & Legal$82kOther$0
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FRIENDS OF THE MENNELLO MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$38,000
UNIVERSITY OF ART MUSEUM$20,000
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
NYFA (NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS)$20,000
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$20,000
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION$20,000
BRIC ARTSMEDIA HOUSE$10,000
KIBOKO PROJECTS$10,000
THE COOPER UNION$10,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
BROADWAY FOR ARTS EDUCATION$10,000
STUDIO IN A SCHOOL$10,000
ADDISON GLLERY OF AMERICAN ART$10,000
SUMMERTIME GALLERY$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROADWAY FOR ARTS EDUCATION: $10k → 17%BROADWAY FOR ARTS EDUCATION: $10k → 17%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 20%DOROT: $10k → 17%DOROT: $6k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%DOROT: $3k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $3k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $3k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $6k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $6k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $6k → 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

ME
VT
ID
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
NM
DC
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 142 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142
24

Total granted

$6.8M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WA
    WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2020–2022 · $155k · revenue +20%
  • LM
    LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $107k · revenue +4%
  • SI
    STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • PA
    PUBLIC ART FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • BM
    BRUCE MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • O1
    Opus 1 Foundation Corp
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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 Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
New York Academy of Art

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.…

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6
Art Explorium
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7
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
8
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
9
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Teen Art Salon Inc

Teen art salon provides young people open-door, free-of-charge art instruction and materials to establish and advance individual studio practices.

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

120 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. 120 of the 177 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/120
Grantees still filing
89/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS AMERICA: $150,000 · Other+87 more: $3,170,783 · Other+87 moreWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $155,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $107,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $105,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS SPACE INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+61 more: $2,363,500 · Arts & Culture+61 moreBARD COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INC: $76,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $60,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $45,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC: $36,000 · EducationPitzer College: $30,000 · EducationLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $30,000 · EducationCatching the Dream: $26,000 · EducationMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Education+3 more: $25,000 · EducationHUDSON GUILDINC: $49,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $48,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesBROADWAY FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $15,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $70,000 · InternationalCEC ARTSLINK INC: $46,000 · InternationalTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $98,000 · ReligionFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $82,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,320,783Arts & Culture$2,930,500Education$497,000Human Services$154,000International$116,000Religion$98,000Crime & Legal$82,000

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 budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $155,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $107,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $106,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $105,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $100,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $100,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetEARTH CELEBRATIONSINC: $99,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $98,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $96,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC: $88,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetHECKSCHER MUSEUM: $85,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $85,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $85,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $82,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $80,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $79,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $76,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $76,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC: $75,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $64,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC: $64,000 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetTHE LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY INC: $62,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $58,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $56,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $56,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPAINTING CENTER INC: $55,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio: $54,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $54,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $52,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC: $52,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSCULPTURE SPACE INC: $50,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetWomen's Studio Workshop Inc: $50,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 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 HECKSCHER MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
  • Who funds RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
  • Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY INC ↗
  • Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗

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.

The Andy Warhol Found…Arison Arts FoundationHelen Frankenthaler F…The Cowles Charitable…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Hillman Family Founda…Ag FoundationThe Pierre & Tana Mat…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…The Pollock-Krasner F…Shelley & Donald Rubi…
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY41.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 177 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home