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Sustainable Arts Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$416k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$662kPhilanthropy$513kCivil Rights$305kHuman Services$80kHealth$60kCommunity Improvement$60kFood & Nutrition$34kEducation$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$120k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YTT NORTHERN CHUMASH NONPROFIT$50,000
SANTA ROSA RANCHERIA TACHI YOKUT TRIBE$50,000
NORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL$50,000
TULE RIVER INDIAN HEALTH CENTER$50,000
SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST$15,000
BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE$12,000
KALA ART INSTITUTE$12,000
WOODLAND PATTERN BOOK CENTER$10,000
UNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB$10,000
CHICKASAW FOUNDATION$10,000
SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION$10,000
MA'S HOUSE AND BIPOC ART STUDIO$10,000
FIRST PEOPLES FUND$10,000
FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$10,000
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CTR$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CTR: $10k → 18%THE WRITERS' COLONY AT DAIRY HOLLOW: $2k → 16%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $6k → 11%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS: $150k → 6%COLLAR WORKS: $6k → 11%THE WRITERS' COLONY AT DAIRY HOLLOW: $2k → 16%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $6k → 11%COLLAR WORKS: $6k → 11%THE WRITERS' COLONY AT DAIRY HOLLOW: $1k → 16%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $6k → 11%COLLAR WORKS: $4k → 11%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $6k → 11%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $6k → 11%MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT: $6k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$583k · 40 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
124

Total granted

$583k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+43%

Still filing today

78%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentReligionOther

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

  • KA
    Kala Art Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +41%
  • GALLERY AFERRO
    7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +142%
  • BA
    BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +250%
  • NA
    NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +30%
  • 2A
    2023 AWARD WINNERS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
2
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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3
Galveston Artist Residency
Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
International Cultural Arts Network
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
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
United Artist Collaborative
Arts & Culture
9
Osage Arts Community Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
12
(402) Arts Collective

Cultivating a vibrant network of artists who create community and impact culture.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Bernardino Valley Concert Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%40%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/78
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,487

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.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 197 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
40/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

2023 AWARD WINNERS — $100,300 · Other2023 AWARD WINNERS2021 AWARD WINNERS — $100,050 · Other2021 AWARD WINNERS2022 AWARD WINNERS — $100,000 · Other2022 AWARD WINNERSSANTA ROSA RANCHERIA TACHI YOKUT TRIBE — $50,000 · OtherGALLERY AFERRO — $40,000 · Other+139 more — $695,250 · Other+139 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $500,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN CHUMASH TRIB…YTT NORTHERN CHUMASH NONPROFIT — $50,000 · Arts & CultureYTT NORTHERN CHUMASH …Kala Art Institute — $43,000 · Arts & CultureKala Art InstituteBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC — $37,667 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANG…BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY — $19,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC — $18,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNTAINHEAD RESIDENCY INC — $18,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC — $16,000 · Arts & Culture+30 more — $221,990 · Arts & Culture+30 moreASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATIO…MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT INC — $36,435 · Human ServicesMARBLE HOU…COLLAR WORKS INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesCOLLAR WOR…NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHALON INDIAN COUNCIL OF BAKERSFIELD — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,440 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $150,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC — $33,000 · EducationTHE MARTHA'S VINEYARD INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE WRITING INC — $17,400 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $3,420 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationTULE RIVER INDIAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 · Health
Other$1,085,600Philanthropy$505,000Arts & Culture$473,657Human Services$227,375Civil Rights$155,000Education$54,070Health$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTULE RIVER INDIAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetYTT NORTHERN CHUMASH NONPROFIT — $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetKala Art Institute — $43,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGALLERY AFERRO — $40,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC — $37,667 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMARBLE HOUSE PROJECT INC — $36,435 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC — $33,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY — $19,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNTAINHEAD RESIDENCY INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MARTHA'S VINEYARD INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE WRITING INC — $17,400 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPOPPS PACKING — $15,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOLLAR WORKS INC — $15,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetWomen's Studio Workshop Inc — $15,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEWNOAKS ARTIST COLONY — $13,700 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetSHUNPIKE — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW HARMONY PROJECT INC — $13,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND PATTERN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST PEOPLES FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO VALLEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA CONSORTIUM FOR URBAN INDIAN HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChickasaw Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAS 220 — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOFTE LAKE CENTER INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCALDERA — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTPACE INC (AUDIT) — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS — $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT TREMPER ARTS INC — $7,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGOOD HART ARTIST RESIDENCY INC — $7,300 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetINTERLUDE ARTIST RESIDENCY INC — $7,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PERFORMANCE PRACTICE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WRITERS COLONY AT DAIRY HOLLOW INC — $5,440 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetELK RIVER ARTS & LECTURES — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJustice Funders — $5,000 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 Andy Warhol Found…New England Foundatio…Common Counsel Founda…Amalgamated Charitabl…Artist Communities Al…Jerome Foundation IncThe Ford FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…The Christensen FundThe Andrew W Mellon F…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…Seventh Generation Fu…
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Common Counsel Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Artist Communities Alliance · Jerome Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Christensen Fund · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc

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 Sustainable Arts 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Performance Works Northwest Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Fountainhead Residency Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Caldera — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sustainable Arts Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sustainable Arts Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 197 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines