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National Academy of Design

The mission of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$198kCommunity Improvement$20k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $15,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $50,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $15k → 20%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.
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 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.

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Chicago Sculpture Exhibit

Establish public art programs

Arts & Culture
2
Flint Public Art Project

Non Profit Art Organization

Community Improvement
3
Contemporary Art Group

To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.

Arts & Culture
4
Art for Resistance Through Change

Raise awareness of social justice

Arts & Culture
5
Equity Arts

EQUITY ARTS is a center for the creative economy that advances racial equity and wealth-building for artists and entrepreneurs. This reparative ownership model preserves space for synergistic exchanges between value-aligned partners. The…

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Global Arts Project Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Make Art Work

To solve complex societal problems, by using art and participation as a mechanism to create local ownwership and long-term systemic change.

Arts & Culture
8
Colab Arts Inc

Colab arts engages artists, social advocates and communities to create tranformative new work.

Arts & Culture
9
Art Opportunities Inc

To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.

Arts & Culture
10
Greenville Art Guild
Arts & Culture
11
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Threewalls

Threewalls is dedicated to fostering contemporary art practices that respond to lived experiences, encouraging connections beyond art through performance, live exhibits, publications, all while connected segregated communities throughout…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundswell Community Mural Projectinc; the most unlike its peers is Emerald South Economic Development Colloborative. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTORY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTORYPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $37,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INCSOCIAL STUDIES 101 INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL STUDIES 101 INCPROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE INCCHICAGO PUBLIC ART GROUP: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC ART GROUPEMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLOBORATIVE: $20,000 · OtherEMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC …WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI: $15,000 · OtherWEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL A…CRESTON ARTS INC: $10,000 · OtherCRESTON ARTS INCGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $15,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$157,500Other$45,000Human Services$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTORY: $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL STUDIES 101 INC: $35,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetPROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLOBORATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC ART GROUP: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCRESTON ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 National Academy of Design funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Academy of Design. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 9 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 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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