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Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

$181M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$2.9MReligion$100kPhilanthropy$50kEducation$30kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$8kHealth$6kOther$113k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $400,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $181,449,327 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $181,049,327 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS INC$300,000
City of Refuge Inc$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%THEA FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 3 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$3.0M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-14%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • LT
    Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue -39% · 100% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
    6× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue -14%
  • FS
    FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +45%
  • CF
    CFDA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • CO
    COUNCIL OF FASHION DESIGNERS OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
2
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
3
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
5
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
6
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

10
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
12
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fashion Scholarship Fund and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc — $2,852,400 · Arts & CultureLucas Theatre for the Arts Inc+2 more — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $75,000 · OtherGeorgia Historical Society — $20,000 · OtherFASHION GROUP INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP — $7,500 · OtherCITY OF REFUGE — $100,000 · ReligionCFDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $30,000 · EducationCOUNCIL OF FASHION DESIGNERS OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHEA FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $6,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,912,400Other$112,500Religion$100,000Philanthropy$50,000Education$30,000Community Improvement$25,000Human Services$7,500Health$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLucas Theatre for the Arts Inc — $2,852,400 over 9y, 100% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCFDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF FASHION DESIGNERS OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Savannah College of Art and DesignInc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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