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Public Media Institute
THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION is to create, incubate, and sustain innovative cultural programming through the production of socially engaged projects, festivals, community spaces, exhibitions, and media.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONTRATIEMPO | $22,200 |
| RACING MAGPIE | $20,000 |
| CONFLUENCE Studio Community | $20,000 |
| PAR-PROJECTS | $20,000 |
| CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SCHOOL FOR RURAL CULTURE | $20,000 |
| MANOOMIN ARTS INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC SPACE ONE | $20,000 |
| BIG CAR MEDIA | $10,000 |
| WORMFARM INSITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those 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 +64% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- PSPUBLIC SPACE ONE3× · 2022–2024 · $52k · revenue +140%
- CSCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $52k · revenue -20%
- BCBIG CAR MEDIA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $42k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TTTHE THIRD RAIL NYC INCone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -8%
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -30%- DDONORMENone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
Resourcing diverse artists with time, space, community, and opportunities to make art that transforms our world.
Public Functionary (PF) is artist-led space to dream and live in a world where our multi-faceted identities are celebrated and centered. A place where creative production and collaboration is reparative and generous. Supporting the…
Artist residency program and publishing
To promote, cultivate and support the works of artists and arts organizations in northern manhattan
The creative mn project is a long-term endeavor to collect and report data on the creative sector for on-going analysis, education and advocacy.
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…
The organization provides artistic entities with a corporate structure and fosters their art through a combination of infrastucture, financial, and administrative support.
Match Works provides financial support to Chicago visual artists to support the production of new artwork.
Support new and emerging work by Artists and spaces created and lead by Artists.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Car Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Third Rail Nyc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 PUBLIC SPACE ONE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG CAR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds WORMFARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RACING MAGPIE ↗
- Who funds Mondiant Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS 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.
Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · 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 Public Media Institute 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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