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Swiss Institute
SWISS INSTITUTE (si) is an independent non-profit contemporary art institution dedicated to promoting forward-thinking and experimental art making through innovative exhibitions, education, and programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DRAWING CENTER INC | $165,320 |
| HALEAKALA INC | $161,128 |
| CREATIVE TIME INC | $150,554 |
| THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT INC | $149,530 |
| PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK | $147,599 |
| SCULPTURE CENTER INC | $146,991 |
| PRINTED MATTER INC | $145,450 |
| ARTISTS SPACE INC | $144,279 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS | $141,363 |
| THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC | $134,590 |
| RECESS ACTIVITIES INC | $132,940 |
| SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC | $130,808 |
| WHITE COLUMNS INC | $124,557 |
| STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC | $122,707 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TDTHE DRAWING CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $196k · revenue +45%
- ASARTISTS SPACE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $167k · revenue +36%
- SSSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +0%
Funded once
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.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Drawing Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 THE DRAWING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC ↗
- Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRINTED MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS ↗
- Who funds RECESS ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE COLUMNS INC ↗
- Who funds STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE 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: Arison Arts Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Via Art Fund Inc · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Brownstone Family 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 Swiss Institute 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.
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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