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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.

$303k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.3M
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$21,667
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC$21,667
RECESS ACTIVITIES INC$21,667
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS$21,667
PRINTED MATTER INC$21,667
SCULPTURE CENTER INC$21,667
ARTISTS SPACE INC$21,667
PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK$21,667
CREATIVE TIME INC$21,667
STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC$21,667
THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC$21,666
WHITE COLUMNS INC$21,666
THE DRAWING CENTER INC$21,666
THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT INC$21,666
HALEAKALA INC$21,666
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $147k → 13%HALEAKALA INC: $161k → 17%RECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $133k → 20%SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $22k → 13%PRINTED MATTER INC: $145k → 17%RECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $27k → 20%SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $22k → 13%HALEAKALA INC: $27k → 17%RECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $22k → 20%SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $131k → 13%PRINTED MATTER INC: $23k → 17%THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT INC: $150k → 20%SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $22k → 13%WHITE COLUMNS INC: $125k → 17%THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT INC: $22k → 20%SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $19k → 13%PRINTED MATTER INC: $22k → 17%THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT INC: $22k → 20%WHITE COLUMNS INC: $22k → 17%THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $135k → 20%HALEAKALA INC: $22k → 17%THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $22k → 20%WHITE COLUMNS INC: $13k → 17%THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $21k → 20%CREATIVE TIME INC: $151k → 17%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS: $141k → 20%CREATIVE TIME INC: $39k → 17%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS: $22k → 20%CREATIVE TIME INC: $22k → 17%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS: $20k → 20%STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $123k → 17%STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $22k → 17%STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $9k → 17%PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK: $148k → 17%PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK: $25k → 17%PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK: $22k → 17%THE DRAWING CENTER INC: $165k → 17%ARTISTS SPACE INC: $144k → 17%THE DRAWING CENTER INC: $31k → 17%ARTISTS SPACE INC: $22k → 17%ARTISTS SPACE INC: $22k → 17%THE DRAWING CENTER INC: $22k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 14 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
0

Total granted

$2.6M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEmploymentCommunity 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

  • TD
    THE DRAWING CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $218k · revenue +45%
  • AS
    ARTISTS SPACE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $188k · revenue +36%
  • SS
    SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $171k · revenue +0%

Funded once

    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
    Kadist Collection Manager Inc
    Arts & Culture
    2
    Artpace Inc (Audit)

    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.

    Arts & Culture
    3
    The Neue Galerie New York
    Arts & Culture
    4
    California Institute of Contemporary Art
    —
    5
    The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
    Arts & Culture
    6
    Berggruen Institute
    Education
    7
    Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

    Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

    Arts & Culture
    8
    New Museum of Contemporary Art

    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.

    Arts & Culture
    9
    International Contemporary Art Foundatio
    Arts & Culture
    10
    Art Explorium
    —
    11
    United Artist Collaborative
    Arts & Culture
    12
    The Luminary Inc

    The luminary is a nonprofit art space in st. louis that supports artists and the community through exhibitions, residencies, grants, and public programs. we provide time, space, and resources for creative work and create opportunities for…

    Arts & Culture
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc; 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.
    04the grantee network

    14 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.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    14/14
    Grantees still filing
    4/14
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    THE DRAWING CENTER INC: $217,726 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAWING CENTER INCCREATIVE TIME INC: $211,032 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE TIME INCHALEAKALA INC: $209,568 · Arts & CultureHALEAKALA INCPERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC: $194,750 · Arts & CulturePERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INCThe Laundromat Project Inc: $193,012 · Arts & CultureThe Laundromat Project IncTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $190,672 · Arts & CultureTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INCPRINTED MATTER INC: $190,569 · Arts & CulturePRINTED MATTER INCARTISTS SPACE INC: $188,290 · Arts & CultureARTISTS SPACE INCMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS: $182,614 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTSRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $181,844 · Arts & CultureRECESS ACTIVITIES INCWHITE COLUMNS INC: $159,113 · Arts & CultureWHITE COLUMNS INCSTOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $153,794 · Arts & CultureSTOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INCTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $177,649 · EmploymentSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $171,281 · Community Improvement
    Arts & Culture$2,272,984Employment$177,649Community Improvement$171,281

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $217,726 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $211,032 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetHALEAKALA INC: $209,568 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetPERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC: $194,750 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $193,012 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $190,672 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPRINTED MATTER INC: $190,569 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $188,290 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS: $182,614 over 3y, 16% of budgetRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $181,844 over 3y, 21% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $177,649 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $171,281 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetWHITE COLUMNS INC: $159,113 over 3y, 10% of budgetSTOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $153,794 over 3y, 4.5% 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.

    Arison Arts FoundationThe Andy Warhol Found…The Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…Ag FoundationThe Cowles Charitable…Via Art Fund IncShelley & Donald Rubi…Daniel M Neidich & Br…Tides FoundationJewish Communal FundBrownstone Family Fou…
    Arison Arts FoundationFL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    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

    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 Swiss Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swiss Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
      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.
      05Through Plinth

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      How do I get to Swiss Institute?

      Find your warmest path to Swiss Institute 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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