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· Public charity
PIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION
To promote the creation of and participation in the arts and sciences.
$907k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants
1
Communities
$94k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Human Services$330kArts & Culture$280kCrime & Legal$115kEducation$115kOther$133k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
music
2022
socialcreatewaterfrontchangehook mediaincarcerationworking
2023
educationyouthyoung
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $593k
$86,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
- RED HOOK INITIATIVE$93,750
- CORA INCORPORATED$86,250
- HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES$86,250
- JUSTICE INNOVATION INC$86,250
- HOOK ARTS MEDIA INC$86,250
- PORTSIDE NEWYORK INC$86,250
- THE ALEX HOUSE PROJECT INC$67,500
- RED HOOK ART PROJECT INC$48,750
- RED HOOK RISE$7,500
02The need
04
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:
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$855k · 8 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
2
Total granted
$855k
$111k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+62%
+285%
Still filing today
100%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationOther
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
- RHRED HOOK INITIATIVE2× · 2022–2023 · $125k · revenue +62%
- HSHEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +53%
- CICORA INCORPORATED2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- PHPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +285%
- RHRED HOOK FLICKSone grant, 2017 · $11k
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
Coho Productions Inc
Coho productions provides critical theatrical opportunities to low-income and underserved artists in portland through our resource center and co-production model. we bring people of all backgrounds together into a theatre community where…
Arts & Culture
2
Powerhouse Arts Inc
Powerhouse is a not-for-profit organization committed to creative expression. housed in a purpose-built facility in brooklyn, the organization hosts an extended network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together…
Arts & Culture
3
The Institute of Music for Children
To engage children and youth in artistic expression and the creative process.
Arts & Culture
4
Cultural Agents Inc
To promote divergent thinking of arts and humanities in the service of solutions to real life problems. in courses, conferences and community- based projects, we join a range of creative collaborators to feature art and interpretation as…
Arts & Culture
5
The Aja Project
The aja project is a compassionate space for young people, activists, visual artists and educators to engage critically with issues that affect our community and realize our collective liberation through participatory storytelling and the…
International
6
The Tank Ltd
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Arts & Culture
7
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
Arts & Culture
8
Artpace Inc
To support artists in the creation of new art through our international artist-in-residence program and engage the public with global art practices and experiences.
Arts & Culture
9
Harlem Arts Foundation
The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…
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10
Rome Art Program Inc
The rome art program is designed to inspire students to expand theirartistic vision through painting and drawing on the streets of rome andflorence, and in the countryside of umbria, expanding on the plein-airtradition of earlier…
Arts & Culture
11
Ahrc Nyc New Projects Inc
To provide living accommodations for people who are neurodiverse to lead full and equitable lives
Human Services
12
The Avenue BlackBox Inc
The Avenue Blackbox is a bold, Black-led multidisciplinary performance space in Rochester, NY's Historic Joseph Avenue neighborhood, providing affordable and culturally rich experiences created by artists of color, youth, LGBTQIA+…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Hook Initiative and the most unlike its peers is Portside New York Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$330,000Arts & Culture$280,050Other$133,250Crime & Legal$115,000Education$115,000
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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTSIDE NEWYORK INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CORA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOOK ARTS MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALEX HOUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK ART PROJECT INC ↗
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.
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation PIONEER WORKS ART 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PORTSIDE NEWYORK INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 200176184 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PORTSIDE NEWYORK INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Pioneer Works Art Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Pioneer Works Art Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines