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Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$782k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Arts & Culture$3.5MEducation$1.7MEnvironment$250kOther$2.8M
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $82k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$41,060
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$700,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$41,060
NATIAONAL GALLERY OF ART$41,060
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DANFORTH ART MUSEUM & SCHOOL: $132k → 8%CAPE ANN MUSEUM: $100k → 10%THE STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $116k → 12%BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 6%JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $50k → 6%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $167k → 22%THE FRANCES YOUNG TANG TEACHING MUS: $50k → 7%SCENIC HUDSON: $100k → 9%HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM: $100k → 9%FENIMORE ART MUSEUM: $186k → 13%STORM KING ART CENTER: $100k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $75k → 17%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $100k → 11%THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $700k → 16%THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $50k → 14%BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 11%GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $89k → 9%MINT MUSEUM: $65k → 10%BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER: $60k → 12%SHELBURNE MUSEUM: $50k → 10%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $50k → 11%SPEED ART MUSEUM: $100k → 15%BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 7%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $250k → 12%BATES COLLEGE: $100k → 13%SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING: $100k → 15%HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARTS MUSEUM: $750k → 8%STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INS: $100k → 12%BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 6%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $167k → 22%SCENIC HUDSON: $50k → 9%HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM: $75k → 9%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS: $50k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: $900k → 12%BATES COLLEGE: $96k → 13%BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 6%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: $100k → 22%INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RE: $100k → 17%ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART: $150k → 14%BATES COLLEGE: $96k → 13%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE AR: $85k → 22%ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART: $97k → 14%THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $75k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $75k → 17%ARTHUR G DOVE CATALOGUE RAISONNE PR: $60k → 17%NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBR: $100k → 17%NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARY: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
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PA
CT
KY
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NC
DC
GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 17 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
30

Total granted

$3.5M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+28%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2018–2021 · $600k · revenue +28%
  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $292k · revenue +49%
  • SH
    Scenic Hudson Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • HU
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARTS MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
  • CC
    COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • FA
    FENIMORE ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $186k · revenue +193%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
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
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
4
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
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Art Explorium
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8
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
9
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
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
12
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Speed Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Artist Book 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 71 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%71%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%69%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $700,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $600,001 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER — $235,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTERMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $216,060 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $216,000 · Arts & CultureSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTEFENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $186,330 · Arts & CultureFENIMORE ART MUSEUMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $1,215,060 · Arts & Culture+16 moreHARVARD UNIVERSITY ARTS MUSEUM — $750,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY ARTS MUSEUMBRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM OF ART — $300,000 · OtherBRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM OF ARTCOLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART — $250,000 · OtherCOLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ARTARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART — $246,890 · OtherARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ARTINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC — $200,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEA…OLD CITY JEWISH ARTS CENTER — $150,000 · OtherOLD CITY JEWISH ARTS CENTERDANFORTH ART MUSEUM & SCHOOL — $132,145 · OtherNEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARY — $100,000 · OtherSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING — $100,000 · OtherNY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBR — $100,000 · OtherPAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN — $100,000 · OtherBOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART — $100,000 · Other+7 more — $235,050 · Other+7 moreYale University — $1,080,000 · EducationYale UniversityPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $292,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES …PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $185,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF…The Pierpont Morgan Library — $75,000 · Education+2 more — $57,000 · EducationScenic Hudson Inc — $250,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$3,493,451Other$2,764,085Education$1,689,000Environment$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYale University — $1,080,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $700,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $600,001 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $292,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $250,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER — $235,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $216,060 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $216,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC — $200,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFENIMORE ART MUSEUM — $186,330 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $185,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $91,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER INC — $60,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe George Washington University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Helen Frankenthaler F…Ibm International Fou…Terra Foundation for …Ann and Arthur Grey F…Robert Lehman Foundat…The Henry Luce Founda…The Andrew W Mellon F…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Ann and Arthur Grey Foundation · Robert Lehman Foundation Inc · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Artist Book Foundation — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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