· Private foundation
Pilara Family 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $1,824,770 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $916,227 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $641,043 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $411,038 |
| ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SF | $406,815 |
| THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION | $275,437 |
| DETROIT INSTITUE OF ART MUSEUM | $230,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CROCKER ART MUSEUM | $164,209 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $118,765 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $109,167 |
| ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA | $100,000 |
| STONE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 22 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART4× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37%
- SMSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +10%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART4× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- SHSacred Heart Cathedral Preparatoryone grant, 2023 · $300k
- QNQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +13%
- SUSTAFORD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
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.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
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…
The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…
To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…
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."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. 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 63 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
- Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CatchLight ↗
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 San Francisco Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Pilara Family 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.
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.