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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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
134
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$756k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$13MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.7MEmployment$1.2MEnvironment$1.1MEducation$972kCrime & Legal$530kFood & Nutrition$410kCommunity Improvement$374kOther$0
02FY2025 · 134 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k82 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$18,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$524M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIONAL BLACK FOOD AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE$75,000
MOVEMENT RESEARCH$75,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$70,000
KARUK TRIBE$50,000
CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC$50,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND: $20k → 8%MOMS 4 HOUSING INC: $10k → 10%BORDER ANGELS: $15k → 11%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $8k → 9%EMMET TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $3k → 31%THE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $3k → 29%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%EKVNV YELOFECVLKE: $40k → 18%MOMS 4 HOUSING: $150k → 10%MOMS4 HOUSING: $100k → 10%VILLAGE-CONNECT INC: $20k → 10%INTERFERENCE ARCHIVES: $10k → 20%VILLAGE-CONNECT INC: $6k → 10%INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE: $10k → 20%INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE: $500 → 20%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE: $10k → 20%THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC - THREE SISTERS COLLECTIVE: $50k → 17%TOGETHER & FREE INC: $120k → 17%THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC - THREE SISTERS COLLECTIVE: $20k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $18k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 113 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
98

Total granted

$17M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+3%

Still filing today

79%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • United States Artists Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +67%
  • TC
    The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +128%
  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +245%

Funded once

  • CS
    CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $435k · revenue -27%
  • TF
    TOGETHER & FREE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0% · 25% of their budget
  • ES
    EL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $88k · revenue -69%
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.

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Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Artpace Inc (Audit)

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Artnoir Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
7
Creative Time Inc

Creative time commissions, produces and presents temporary public arts projects.

Arts & Culture
8
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
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Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
10
United Artist Collaborative
Arts & Culture
11
Apex Art Curatorial Program Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

199 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. 199 of the 289 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)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
196/199
Grantees still filing
100/199
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYFA: $4,659,500 · OtherNYFANEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA): $1,092,000 · OtherNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA)CLEMENTE SOLO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · OtherCLEMENTE SOLO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER INCLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDTN: $438,000 · Other+88 more: $4,121,200 · Other+88 moreUnited States Artists Inc: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists IncTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,031,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMCLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER: $435,000 · Arts & CultureCLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND ED…BETA-LOCAL INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $300,000 · Arts & Culture+69 more: $3,543,650 · Arts & Culture+69 moreThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $1,065,000 · EmploymentLos Angeles Black Worker Center: $63,000 · EmploymentSHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE: $300,000 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentUnited States Endowment for Forestry: $84,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $75,000 · EnvironmentMayan Spring Incorporated: $55,000 · EnvironmentTataviam Land Conservancy: $50,000 · EnvironmentSHINNECOCK KELP FARMERS INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Environment+4 more: $59,600 · EnvironmentCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $303,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $130,000 · EducationMovement Generation: $75,000 · EducationTOPAZ ARTS INC: $50,000 · EducationNova Southeastern University Inc: $40,000 · EducationTHE OCTAVIA PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $23,000 · EducationMOMS 4 HOUSING INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER & FREE INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $40,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $30,000 · Human ServicesINTERFERENCE ARCHIVE: $29,500 · Human ServicesVillage-Connect Inc: $26,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $149,000 · InternationalCenter for Third World Organizing: $30,000 · International
Other$11,310,700Arts & Culture$6,860,150Employment$1,128,000Environment$748,600Education$651,000Human Services$635,500International$429,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $1,250,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $1,065,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,031,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER: $435,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $303,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE: $300,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBETA-LOCAL INC: $300,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $300,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetMOMS 4 HOUSING INC: $260,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC: $225,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetVIDA LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $225,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetBIDOUN PROJECTS INC: $220,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $210,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $207,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBLANK FORMS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetNational Black Food and Justice Alliance: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC: $145,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTOGETHER & FREE INC: $120,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBLACK & WHITE PROJECT SPACE INC: $105,600 over 4y, 99% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetUGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD: $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC: $100,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetEL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $88,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUnited States Endowment for Forestry: $84,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA: $75,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMovement Generation: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINTED MATTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLINKS HALL INC: $68,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLos Angeles Black Worker Center: $63,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $60,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMA INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetART RESOURCES TRANSFER INC: $58,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMayan Spring Incorporated: $55,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetWide Rainbow Corporation: $55,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $53,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER INC: $52,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCCF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FUND: $52,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRESIST INC: $50,450 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 SHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds BETA-LOCAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC ↗
  • 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 ART MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK & WHITE PROJECT SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD ↗

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.

The Andy Warhol Found…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Ford FoundationArison Arts FoundationThe Howard Gilman Fou…Jerome Foundation IncMid Atlantic Arts IncAmalgamated Charitabl…The Annenberg Foundat…New England Foundatio…Via Art Fund IncMertz Gilmore Foundat…
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY74.7× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 289 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home