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Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation Inc

Contemporary artist education and developement

$13k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$5k
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 2021.

Education$113kArts & Culture$42kCrime & Legal$6kHealth$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCommunity Improvement$500Youth Development$261Recreation & Sports$260
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
3
States reached
$68k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARED HARVEST FOUNDATION$5,000
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY$5,000
INLIQUID ART & DESIGN$1,011
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF PHILADELPHIA$750
MURAL ARTS PHILADELPHIA$600
PHILADELPHIA ANTI-DRUG ANTI-VIOLENCE NETWORK INC$600
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% 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 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $5k → 12%INLIQUID ART & DESIGN: $1k → 22%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $5k → 14%STONYBROOK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%LA GUARDIA CC: $3k → 13%DONORSCHOOSEORG: $11k → 17%BROOKLYN COLLEGE: $5k → 20%BRONX CC: $3k → 28%NEWARK PERFORMING ARTS CORPORATION: $9k → 16%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS: $13k → 9%TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $4k → 12%MURAL ARTS PHILADELPHIA: $600 → 22%SHARED HARVEST FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%STONYBROOK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%FIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 20%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $3k → 12%PHILADELPHIA ANTI-DRUG ANTI-VIOLENCE NETWORK INC: $600 → 22%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 17%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 20%HOOD ENRICHED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $260 → 22%STONYBROOK UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4k → 17%EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 17%URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $500 → 22%SOLEDAD O'BRIEN AND BRAD RAYMOND FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF PHILADELPHIA: $750 → 22%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE: $4k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE: $4k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $5k → 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65k · 6 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$65k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+24%

Still filing today

67%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $14k
  • JJ
    JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue -7%
  • FI
    FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $12k

Funded once

  • VC
    VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -51%
  • MF
    MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +57%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +24%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Island University; the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Anti-Drug Anti-Violence Network. 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

23 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. 23 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
12/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC: $13,125 · EducationVERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INCJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · EducationJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVI…HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $11,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESDONORSCHOOSEORG: $11,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGPowherful Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationPowherful Foundation IncHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVERSITYSHARED HARVEST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationSHARED HARVEST FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $5,000 · Education+2 moreSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE: $14,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE …FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $11,634 · OtherFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUND…LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $5,497 · OtherLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITYNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $5,000 · OtherNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONThe Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning McGill University: $5,000 · OtherThe Royal Institution for the Advance…City college of New York: $5,000 · OtherCity college of New York+2 more: $760 · OtherMESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Arts & CultureMESERVE-KUNHARDT FO…NEWARK PERFORMING ARTS CORPORATION: $8,552 · Arts & CultureNEWARK PERFORMING A…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUT…Inliquidcom Inc: $1,011 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,350 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $5,000 · HealthBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyPHILADELPHIA ANTI-DRUG ANTI-VIOLENCE NETWORK: $600 · Community ImprovementTHE MALCOLM JENKINS FOUNDATION: $261 · Youth Development
Education$77,625Other$56,891Arts & Culture$28,913Health$5,000Philanthropy$2,500Community Improvement$600Youth Development$261

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 budgetVERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC: $13,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWARK PERFORMING ARTS CORPORATION: $8,552 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $5,497 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED HARVEST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIORELLO H LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInliquidcom Inc: $1,011 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANTI-DRUG ANTI-VIOLENCE NETWORK: $600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALCOLM JENKINS FOUNDATION: $261 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Studio in a School As…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Studio in a School Association Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 28 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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