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Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation at a glance

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Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$443kEducation$77kSocial Science$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Ukrainian Musuem$25,000
The Brooklyn Rail$15,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $4k → 10%Historic Artists Homes and Studios: $2k → 12%BARD PRISON INITATIVE: $23k → 9%MOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVCANY: $2k → 14%Rockland Center for the Arts: $8k → 14%MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTIT: $2k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $51k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $25k → 20%Bowdoin College Museum of Art: $650 → 7%BARD PRISON INITATIVE: $8k → 9%Rockland Center for the Arts: $8k → 14%MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTIT: $1k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $51k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $21k → 20%BARD PRISON INITATIVE: $3k → 9%Rockland Center for the Arts: $5k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $51k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $15k → 20%Rockland Center for the Arts: $5k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $30k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $15k → 20%Rockland Center for the Arts: $355 → 14%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $8k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $15k → 20%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $5k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $15k → 20%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $5k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $10k → 20%The Aspen Institute: $5k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $10k → 20%The Aspen Institute: $5k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $5k → 20%STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $15k → 17%STUDIO IN A SCHOOL: $5k → 17%STUDIO IN A SCHOOL: $5k → 17%STUDIO IN A SCHOOL: $5k → 17%The Ukrainian Musuem: $25k → 17%STUDIO IN A SCHOOL: $3k → 17%SWISS INSTITUTE CONTEMPORARY ART: $10k → 17%The Art Students League of New York: $3k → 17%The 92nd Street Y: $10k → 17%Cambridge in America: $39k → 17%Cambridge in America: $3k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$459k · 8 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$459k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationInternationalReligionSocial ScienceOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $199k · revenue +20%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +277%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $33k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • SI
    SWISS INSTITUTE CONTEMPORARY ART
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Teen Art Salon Inc

Teen art salon provides young people open-door, free-of-charge art instruction and materials to establish and advance individual studio practices.

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
3
International Academy of Fine Art

The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).

International
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
Moore College of Art and Design

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…

Education
6
New York Academy of Art

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.…

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7
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
11
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute; the most unlike its peers is Rockland Center for the Arts 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $199,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INCTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $130,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INCROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,855 · Arts & CultureROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCUKRAINIAN MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureUKRAINIAN MUSEUMTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $41,000 · InternationalBARD COLLEGE: $32,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $3,500 · EducationSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 · OtherSWISS INSTITUTE CONTEMPORARY ART: $10,000 · OtherHistoric Artists Homes and Studios: $2,000 · OtherMOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVCANY: $1,500 · Other+1 more: $650 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · ReligionTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Social Science
Arts & Culture$400,855International$41,000Education$36,000Other$31,650Religion$10,000Social Science$10,000

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $199,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $130,500 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,855 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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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