· Private foundation
Samuel H Kress Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k8 grants · $819k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $275,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION | $230,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $170,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME | $120,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF HBCU MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES INC | $89,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| ITHAKA S & R | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $50,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $36,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION | $35,000 |
| RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $31,500 |
| WINTERTHUR MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
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 US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($2.0M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($2.0M)
6 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 +13% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 12 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k 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
- NYNew York University5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +30%
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME5× · 2021–2025 · $781k · revenue +62%
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College5× · 2021–2025 · $331k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TOTrustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2023 · $121k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELANDINCone grant, 2022 · $66k · revenue -54%
- VMVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +8%
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.
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 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).
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 huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
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,…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
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…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Federation of Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation 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 57 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 192 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 New York University ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SMARTHISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF HBCU MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELANDINC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Terra Foundation for American Art · The New York Community Trust · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Robert Lehman Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The Ford 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 Samuel H Kress 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Archaeological Institute of America — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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