· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Innocence Project | $125,000 |
| CARINGKIND | $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 |
| Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd | $60,000 |
| Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Inc | $60,000 |
| Time and Space Limited | $25,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 58% of Planning and Art Resources for Communities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Planning and Art Resources for Communities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Planning and Art Resources for Communities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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