· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONTRATIEMPO | $22,200 |
| MANOOMIN ARTS INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| CONFLUENCE Studio Community | $20,000 |
| CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC SPACE ONE | $20,000 |
| RACING MAGPIE | $20,000 |
| SCHOOL FOR RURAL CULTURE | $20,000 |
| PAR-PROJECTS | $20,000 |
| WORMFARM INSITUTE | $10,000 |
| BIG CAR MEDIA | $10,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +64% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $52k · revenue -20%
- PSPUBLIC SPACE ONE3× · 2022–2024 · $52k · revenue +140%
- 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
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.
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
Big medium supports artists through equitable and inclusive platforms to explore their practice and advance their careers.
The organization provides artistic entities with a corporate structure and fosters their art through a combination of infrastucture, financial, and administrative support.
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…
Match Works provides financial support to Chicago visual artists to support the production of new artwork.
Pro Arts supports art that pushes boundaries, generates critical discourse, and challenges the status quo. Annually Pro Arts presents over 200 artists, working in diverse artistic fields
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 13 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 CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SPACE ONE ↗
- Who funds BIG CAR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds WORMFARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds Mondiant Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds RACING MAGPIE ↗
- Who funds THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS 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: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Public Media Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Public Media Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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