· Private foundation
Planning and Art Resources for Communities Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of Planning and Art Resources for Communities Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Venn Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Planning and Art Resources for Communities Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saddleback Mountain Foundation | $400,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $200,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $200,000 |
| Wildlife Conservation Network | $185,000 |
| Innocence Project | $125,000 |
| CARINGKIND | $125,000 |
| Innocence Project | $125,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $120,000 |
| The Hetrick-Martin Institute | $100,000 |
| FAIR Girls Inc | $75,000 |
| Columbia Greene Humane Society | $75,000 |
| OutRight Action International | $70,000 |
| Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Inc | $60,000 |
| Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd | $60,000 |
| Time and Space Limited | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 58% of Planning and Art Resources for Communities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +39%- RLRANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- SMSaddleback Mountain Foundationone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -100%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +21%- HBHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTDone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +16%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carriage Trade Gallery Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 VENN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds Saddleback Mountain Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARRIAGE TRADE GALLERY CORP ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organization Planning and Art Resources for Communities 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 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.
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