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Ponsold Motherwell Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $825k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION & MUSEUM INC | $1,150,000 |
| MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC | $400,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC | $250,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION | $210,000 |
| ARTSCONNECTION INC | $100,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| APERTURE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $90,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| OPEN ARTS ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION INC | $35,000 |
| ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $25,853 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE SEWING ACADEMY | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 29% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- PAPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +74% · 46% of their budget
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION3× · 2023–2025 · $410k · revenue +19%
- TGTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $270k · revenue +349%
Funded once
- MAMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $400k · revenue +118%
MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2025 · $300k · revenue +3%- FAFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INCone grant, 2025 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Moore is dedicated to excellence in art and design. Founded in 1848, Moore is the first and only visual arts college for women in the US. With its undergraduate BFA degree for women and coeducational graduate programs, Moore cultivates…
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.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
Pratt is an institute, an experience, and an idea. what started as a radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a community of 5,137 grad and undergrad students working across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bennington College Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Social Justice Sewing Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds Open Arts Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSCONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE SEWING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
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: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Ponsold Motherwell Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Open Arts Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
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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