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Richard J Massey Foundation for Arts and Science at a glance

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Richard J Massey Foundation for Arts and Science

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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Health$618kArts & Culture$255kEducation$33kPhilanthropy$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kRecreation & Sports$100
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART INC: $48k → 6%PRESERVATION LEAGUE: $2k → 14%FRIENDS OF TUXEDO PARK LIBRARY: $3k → 14%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $45k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY NASHER MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART: $15k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART INC: $28k → 6%TUXEDO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 14%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $38k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%EILEEN S KAMINSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART INC: $25k → 6%FRIENDS OF TUXEDO PARK LIBRARY: $450 → 14%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%EILEEN S KAMINSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART INC: $12k → 6%TUXEDO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $250 → 14%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%TUXEDO PARK GARDEN CLUB: $100 → 14%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $160k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%TUXEDO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 → 14%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $160k → 17%TUXEDO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 → 14%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 17%THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%WHITE BOX: $3k → 17%INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $23k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$868k · 7 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$868k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+25%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    5× · 2018–2023 · $25k · revenue +49%
  • ES
    EILEEN S KAMINSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +49%
  • TP
    TUXEDO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT
    4× · 2018–2022 · $1k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue +41%
  • FA
    FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY NASHER MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
Aldo Tambellini Art Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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6
Matthew and Iris Strauss Family Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc

Founded in 1995, the american friends of the shanghai museum is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and financial support for the shanghai museum, continuing a distinguished history of patron support for…

Arts & Culture
9
Fisher Art Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
11
Calder Foundation
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12
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Florence Academy of Art Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $620,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INCTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART INC: $112,678 · OtherTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE F…THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $102,540 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERAFLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART: $15,000 · OtherFLORENCE ACADEMY OF ARTDUKE UNIVERSITY NASHER MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $8,550 · OtherUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $25,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $22,885 · EducationFRIENDS OF TUXEDO PARK LIBRARY INC: $2,950 · EducationINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEILEEN S KAMINSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE BOX LTD: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Health$620,000Other$248,768Education$50,835Arts & Culture$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $620,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $22,885 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEILEEN S KAMINSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TUXEDO PARK LIBRARY INC: $2,950 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWHITE BOX LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTUXEDO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard J Massey Foundation for Arts and Science funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard J Massey Foundation for Arts and Science. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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