· Private foundation
Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $196k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $727k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $985k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $500,000 |
| YALE--DAVID GEFFEN YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA | $400,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $375,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $300,000 |
| ARTIST REPERTORY THEATER | $260,000 |
| MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION | $155,000 |
| AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL | $110,000 |
| KIPS BAY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $101,910 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSN INC | $100,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $60,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $57,625 |
| DURHAM TECH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 24 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k 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
HIGH DESERT MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +267%- NGNational Gallery of Art4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +15%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $640k · revenue +40%
Funded once
Portland Museum of Artone grant, 2020 · $410k · revenue +7%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $250k
- ARAlternate RootsIncone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -74%
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.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.
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…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holler Creek School of Appalachian Ecology Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
115 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. 115 of the 170 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 HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Art Transforms Inc ↗
- Who funds YPC NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CAMERATA PACIFICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE NETWERK ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GASPARD&DANCERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Autzen 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 Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Performance Works Northwest Inc — 3% of income from government
- City Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bach Cantata Choir — 3% of income from government
- Neskowin Coast Foundation — 2% of income from government
- White Bird — 2% of income from government
- Fear No Music — 2% of income from government
- Pacific Youth Choir — 1% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- PassinArt - a Theater Company — 1% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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