· Private foundation
Roy Lichtenstein 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+4 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY | $7,239,083 |
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,946,500 |
| KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL | $1,299,200 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $1,213,000 |
| NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $43,206 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $26,000 |
| ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART | $18,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,320 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH | $2,500 |
| GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $1,500 |
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 US giving — 80% of grant dollars ($64M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($16M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 20% of all-years giving ($16M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +20% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART5× · 2018–2024 · $36M · revenue +125% · 36% of their budget
- FFFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC3× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +12% · 26% of their budget
- NGNational Gallery of Art3× · 2020–2023 · $190k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- AMALBERTINA MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $14M
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue +33%- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $1.6M · revenue -19%
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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…
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…
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Modern Art and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Environmental Network. 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 48 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 53 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 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LUIS A FERRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE WORKSHOP AND ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds ARTS ADMINISTRATORS OF COLOR DMV NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ASCHIANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds SUMGATE 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Roy Lichtenstein 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.
- Portland Art Museum — 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.
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