· Public charity
Pioneer Works Art Foundation
To promote the creation of and participation in the arts and sciences.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $593k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE | $93,750 |
| HOOK ARTS MEDIA INC | $86,250 |
| HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES | $86,250 |
| PORTSIDE NEWYORK INC | $86,250 |
| CORA INCORPORATED | $86,250 |
| JUSTICE INNOVATION INC | $86,250 |
| THE ALEX HOUSE PROJECT INC | $67,500 |
| RED HOOK ART PROJECT INC | $48,750 |
| RED HOOK RISE | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JIJUSTICE INNOVATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +232%
- SVST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +19%
- AHAlex House Project Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $90k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PHPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +53%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $11k
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.
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.
Harlem Film House provides access and opportunity for creative entrepreneurs and independent storytellers by producing programs platforms and events that support artistic development audience engagement and career growth Through film media…
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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…
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
To inspire, educate, and empower "opportunity youth", to achieve academic success through music education, sound engineering, and multimedia production.
The mission of art league houston is to connect the community through diverse, dynamic, and creative experiences that bring people together to see, make, and talk about contemporary visual art.
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…
To engage children and youth in artistic expression and the creative process.
Leap empowers low and moderate income people by helping them gain access to living-wage employment opportunities and career paths. we seek to develop programs that counter prevailing market inequalities and contribute to a broader movement…
Hope community creates connections that strengthen the power of community members and communities. hope cultivates community leaders, builds community capacity, cares for the housing and community spaces it develops, and pursues equity and…
Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTSIDE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CORA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOOK ARTS MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alex House Project Inc ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK ART PROJECT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pioneer Works Art Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pioneer Works Art Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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