How much did PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL grant in FY2022?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

musical performanceshudsonvalleyshakespearetheatricalconstructionhvs commenced

2019

theatremusical performanceshudsonvalleyshakespearetheatricalconstruction

2020

art workshopsmusical performancesfilmmulti-disciplinarycorporationdiversetheatrical

2021

music theaterlibraryperformancescorporationdiversetheatricalhudson

2022

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,900

Median grant

States reached

$397k

Total assets

Largest grants

TOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL COALITION$8,950
GARRISON LANDING ASSOCIATION$6,255
PUTNAM CHORALE$5,900
ARTS ON THE LAKE$5,600
TOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTER$5,500
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS INC$5,300

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 5%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$231k · 22 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$231k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+50%

Still filing today

59%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

TO
Town of Southeast Cultural Coalition
6× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +46%
PC
Putnam Chorale
6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +96%
AO
Arts on the Lake
6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +100%

Funded once

GA
Garrison Art Centergraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +78%
M
Manitoga
one grant, 2021 · $2k
ST
Stones Throw Theatre Company
one grant, 2019 · $800

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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Le Sueur Theatre Historic Preservation

Arts & Culture

P & J Theater Works

Arts & Culture

Arts Council of the Morris Area

Morris arts' mission is to build community through the arts with arts education programs, community arts events, support of local artists and organizations and advocacy for funding for the arts.

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Pearson Lakes Art Center

The Organization's mission is to excite, engage and serve communities within the Iowa Great Lakes Region through our collections, exhibitions, performances, and educational programs; a non-profit center connecting generations of people…

Arts & Culture

Worcester County Arts Council Inc

To aid, encourage, advise, and correlate activities dedicated to the promotion of the arts in worcester county, as may be feasible; to integrate such activities into the total life of the community served by the council.

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Huntington Arts Council Inc

To enrich the quality of life of long islanders with programs and services that address the needs and interests of artists, cultural organizations and the community.

Arts & Culture

Nassau County Museum of Art

The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond.

Arts & Culture

Arts Center and Theatre of

The mission of the arts center & theatre of schenectady (acts) is to provide a diverse program of excellent performing arts events, to restore and preserve the beautiful proctor's theatre, to serve as a cultural center for the capital…

Arts & Culture

Colquittmiller Arts Council Inc

To encourage and stimulate the practice and appreciation of the arts among people living in miller county and the surrounding areas.

Arts & Culture

Creede Repertory Theatre

From its rocky mountain roots, creede repertory theatre serves as an artistic home to our rural community and beyond, through the creation of repertory seasons, dynamic educational programs, and compelling new works.

Arts & Culture

Brewton Council of the Arts

Providing regular performances of the arts

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Garrison Art Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/27

the rest of the field

42/526

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$130,880Other$95,901Education$11,500

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.

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.

Ibm International FoundationNY18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · Anne Anastasi Charitable Foundation · The D J McManus Foundation Inc · Community Foundations of the Hudson · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Nimham Mountain Singers.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 161682424 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Nimham Mountain Singers, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Putnam Arts Council?

Find your warmest path to Putnam Arts Council through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Putnam Arts Council?

More from the funding graph

PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Putnam Arts Council?

More from the funding graph