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Teiger Foundation

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.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
85
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 71
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
23
Total assets, FY2025
$159M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Teiger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $729k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving78$6.0M58%
FY202436$2.1M36%
FY202371$7.5M90%
FY202229$9.7M86%
FY20218$4.0M50%
FY20206$5.7M83%
FY20191$68k100%
FY20171$10kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$33MEducation$281kInternational$131kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kCommunity Improvement$125kEnvironment$120kPhilanthropy$97kCivil Rights$78kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metropolitan Museum of Art$5,775,00020%
Museum of Modern Art$3,750,00011%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$2,510,00024%
Tate Americas Foundation$2,200,000114%
Swiss Institute$1,915,000522%
Fulcrum Arts$1,200,000224%
Participant Inc$1,155,000314%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$1,015,00031%
United States Artists Inc$750,00024%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc$750,00027%
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All grantees of Teiger Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metropolitan Museum of Art$5,775,00020%
Museum of Modern Art$3,750,00011%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$2,510,00024%
Tate Americas Foundation$2,200,000114%
Swiss Institute$1,915,000522%
Fulcrum Arts$1,200,000224%
Participant Inc$1,155,000314%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$1,015,00031%
United States Artists Inc$750,00024%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc$750,00027%
Independent Curators International$666,000418%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$370,00011%
The Brick$304,40025%
Art into Acres$300,000213%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$277,64433%
Museum of Contemporary Art$275,00021%
International Studio & Curatorial Program Inc$250,000116%
The J Paul Getty Trust$250,00010%
Portland Art Museum$250,00020%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$234,83820%
Center for Curatorial Leadership Inc$225,00031%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles$217,50021%
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis$200,50024%
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc$200,00011%
Whitney Museum of American Art$170,00010%
Rivers Institute$170,00038%
Spaces$155,000364%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$154,85010%
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston$153,18012%
The Luminary Inc$152,500311%
San Jose Museum of Art Association$151,12513%
Sixty Inches From Center Nfp$150,50036%
Honolulu Biennial Foundation$150,0001n/a
Working Artists and the Greater Economy$150,0001n/a
Nevada Museum of Art$150,00011%
The Sculpture Center Inc$150,00032%
Art21 Inc$150,00013%
Community Partners$125,00010%
Racing Magpie$101,00035%
Texas Southern University Foundatio$100,00011%
Mississippi Museum of Art Inc$100,00012%
The Lab Sf$100,000114%
RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$95,00035%
The Contemporary Austin Museum Inc$95,00021%
Diverseworks Inc$95,00036%
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Inc$80,00011%
Corita Art Center Inc$80,00034%
The Phillips Collection$75,00010%
Summertime Gallery Inc$75,00039%
Creative Time Inc$75,00012%
Regents of the University of Michigan$75,0001n/a
Name Publications Inc$75,000317%
Boca Raton Museum of Art$75,00012%
Queens Museum of Art$75,00011%
Wexner Center Foundation$75,00013%
The Contemporary Arts Center$75,00012%
Beta-Local Inc$75,00038%
Art Papers Inc$75,000135%
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit$70,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$55,0001n/a
Galveston Artist Residency$55,0001n/a
Friends of Alice Austen House Inc$52,500110%
The Heard Museum$52,00010%
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico Inc$50,00012%
Friends of a Studio in the Woods$50,00017%
Oregon State University Foundation$50,00010%
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego$50,00011%
Baltimore Museum of Art$50,00010%
Antenna$50,00015%
Storefront for Art and Architecture Inc$50,00015%
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson$50,0001n/a
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc$50,00010%
Art Resources Transfer Inc$45,00033%
Para la Naturaleza Inc$45,00030%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$30,00020%
The Art Institute of Chicago$25,00010%
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Inc$25,00013%
Museums Moving Forward Inc$25,0001n/a
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences$25,00010%
500 Capp Street Foundation$25,00015%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$20,00010%
New York City AIDS Memorial Inc$20,00021%
Site Santa Fe$15,0001n/a
The Performance Zone Inc$10,75310%
Soft Network Inc$10,00015%
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc$10,00020%
November Mag Inc$10,0001n/a
Harlem Stage Inc$10,00010%
Artists in Residence Inc$10,00012%
The Performance Art Museum$10,00013%
The Drawing Center Inc$10,00020%
People for the American Way Foundation$10,00010%
American Academy of Arts and Letters$10,00010%
Art & Practice$10,00020%
Del Vaz Projects Inc$10,00014%
Des Moines Pride Center$7,5001n/a
Midway Contemporary Art$5,00010%
Aware-Usa Inc$5,00013%
Artists Fellowship Inc$5,00011%
Peconic Land Trust Inc$5,00010%
One Iowa$2,50010%
Center for Cultural Innovation$1,50010%
Performance Space 122 Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Teiger Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $5,775,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,750,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $2,510,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTate Americas Foundation: $2,200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSwiss Institute: $1,915,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetFulcrum Arts: $1,200,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetParticipant Inc: $1,155,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetThe Studio Museum in Harlem: $1,015,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetFoundation for Contemporary Arts Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetIndependent Curators International: $666,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $370,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Brick: $304,400 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetArt into Acres: $300,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNew York Foundation for the Arts Inc: $277,644 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art: $275,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Studio & Curatorial Program Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetThe J Paul Getty Trust: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDia Center for the Arts Inc: $234,838 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Curatorial Leadership Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $217,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetContemporary Art Museum St Louis: $200,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $170,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRivers Institute: $170,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSpaces: $155,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $154,850 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston: $153,180 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Luminary Inc: $152,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Art Association: $151,125 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSixty Inches From Center Nfp: $150,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Sculpture Center Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetArt21 Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Partners: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRacing Magpie: $101,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTexas Southern University Foundatio: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMississippi Museum of Art Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Lab Sf: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $95,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetThe Contemporary Austin Museum Inc: $95,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDiverseworks Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetMuseo de Arte de Puerto Rico Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCorita Art Center Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSummertime Gallery Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetCreative Time Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 92.

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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.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY84.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Via Art Fund Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Shelley & Donald Rubin 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.

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How do I get to Teiger Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Teiger 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.

About Teiger Foundation

How much does Teiger Foundation give?
Teiger Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $6,154,993 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Teiger Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Education (1%), International (0%).
Who are Teiger Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($5.8M), Museum of Modern Art ($3.8M), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($2.5M).
Does Teiger Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Teiger Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Teiger Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art.
Where is Teiger Foundation based?
Teiger Foundation is based in NY.

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 161 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-PF 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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