· Private foundation
Robert Rauschenberg 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k82 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA) | $756,000 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA) | $336,000 |
| CLEMENTE SOLO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC | $250,000 |
| THE JEAN PAUL GETTY TRUST | $200,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $190,000 |
| MYRIAD USA - INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE MUSEUM LUDWIG | $126,000 |
| ART MATTERS | $105,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| MOVEMENT RESEARCH | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL BLACK FOOD AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $70,000 |
| THE FREEDOM FOOD ALLIANCE INC | $50,000 |
| KARUK TRIBE | $50,000 |
| THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MODERNA MUSEET INC | $50,000 |
| TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC | $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 (FY19–25, $659k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
United States Artists Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +67%- TCThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +128%
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM5× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +245%
Funded once
- CSCLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTERone grant, 2023 · $435k · revenue -70%
- TFTOGETHER & FREE INCone grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0% · 25% of their budget
- ESEL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $88k · revenue -69%
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.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
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.
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
Creative time commissions, produces and presents temporary public arts projects.
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.
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc and the most unlike its peers is Land Light Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
199 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. 199 of the 289 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds BETA-LOCAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MOMS 4 HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds VIDA LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BIDOUN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds BLANK FORMS INC ↗
- Who funds National Black Food and Justice Alliance ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER & FREE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK & WHITE PROJECT SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds ART MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTICIPANT INC ↗
- Who funds UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jerome Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Via Art Fund Inc · Mertz Gilmore 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 Rauschenberg 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Performance Works Northwest Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc — 1% 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.