· Private foundation
Taubman Foundation for the Arts
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Taubman Foundation for the Arts’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Taubman Foundation for the Arts named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $7M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $152k
- $250k+3 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CARILION CLINIC FOUNDATION | $5,487,413 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $905,743 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $542,696 |
| TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART | $151,688 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $25,000 |
| NORTH CROSS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MERCERSBURG ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE | $15,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISREAL MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HSS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| IZZITORG | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
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
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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CCCarilion Clinic Foundation4× · 2020–2023 · $25M · revenue +173% · 76% of their budget
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION5× · 2017–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +34%- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MAMERCERSBERG ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $250k
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +89%- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge 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.
24 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. 24 of the 40 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 Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE ROANOKE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds North Cross School ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds IZZITORG ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Public Library Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · The Rice Foundation Inc · Rugaber Family Fund · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Taubman Foundation for the Arts 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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