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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 FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $491k
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$50,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$159M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOMA PS1$500,000
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$500,000
J PAUL GETTY TRUST$250,000
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM$200,000
MASS MOCA$200,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$170,000
DIA ART FOUNDATION$159,838
COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$155,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$154,850
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON$153,180
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART$151,125
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM OF ST LOUIS$150,000
HAWAI'I CONTEMPORARY$150,000
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$150,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PORTRAIT$150,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASS MOCA: $200k → 12%CARNEGIE MUSEUMS: $200k → 11%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $151k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2.5M → 10%HAWAI'I CONTEMPORARY: $150k → 9%MOMA PS1: $500k → 13%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $160k → 17%DOCUMENTA 15: $200k → 10%INTESA SANPAOLO SPA: $500k → 15%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $150k → 10%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $155k → 12%CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $150k → 10%THE KITCHEN: $150k → 17%INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL: $250k → 20%THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $150k → 14%CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON: $153k → 16%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PORTRAIT: $150k → 14%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM OF ST LOUIS: $150k → 21%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $275k → 20%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $500k → 17%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO: $225k → 14%LAXART: $250k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $250k → 17%UNITED STATES ARTISTS INC: $500k → 14%UNITED STATES ARTISTS INC: $250k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $170k → 17%WORKING ARTISTS AND THE GREATER ECONOMY: $150k → 20%J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $250k → 14%THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $200k → 17%HAMMER MUSEUM: $155k → 14%UCLA: $152k → 14%FULCRUM ARTS: $700k → 14%THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $500k → 17%FULCRUM ARTS: $500k → 14%THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $500k → 17%SWISS INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 17%SWISS INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%SWISS INSTITUTE: $250k → 17%80WSE GALLERY: $150k → 17%SWISS INSTITUTE: $150k → 17%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 17%ART21 INC: $150k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3.6M → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2.2M → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $3.8M → 17%PARTICIPANT INC: $1.0M → 17%INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $250k → 17%INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 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.

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
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Teiger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 39%.

Teiger Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 47 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
66

Total granted

$21M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

81%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsEnvironmentCommunity 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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5.8M · revenue +39%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    2× · 2017–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +37%
  • SI
    SWISS INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • MO
    Museum of Modern Artgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3.8M · revenue +36%
  • TA
    TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2.2M · revenue -50%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Art Explorium
—
4
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
5
Berggruen Institute
Education
6
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
Art Ambassador
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9
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
12
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sculpture Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 161 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/103
Grantees still filing
45/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,775,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTMuseum of Modern Art: $3,750,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2,510,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $2,200,000 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONSWISS INSTITUTE: $1,915,000 · Arts & CultureSWISS INSTITUTEPARTICIPANT INC: $1,155,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,015,000 · Arts & Culture+67 more: $8,785,537 · Arts & Culture+67 moreFULCRUM ARTS: $1,200,000 · OtherFULCRUM ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…FONDAZIONE LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA: $500,000 · OtherFONDAZIONE LA BIENNAL…MOMA PS1: $500,000 · OtherMOMA PS1CARNEGIE MUSEUMS: $275,500 · Other+62 more: $3,676,060 · Other+62 moreThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $370,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,500 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $100,000 · EducationWEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationOregon State University Foundation: $50,000 · EducationAntenna: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $55,000 · EducationTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $97,467 · PhilanthropyREMA HORT MANN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMYRIAD USA INC: $131,175 · InternationalCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $125,000 · Community ImprovementPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil RightsONE IOWA: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$27,105,537Other$6,651,560Education$1,000,500Philanthropy$382,467International$131,175Community Improvement$125,000Environment$50,000Civil Rights$32,500

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

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 budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $131,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRACING MAGPIE: $101,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $97,467 over 3y, 0.1% 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 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.

The Andy Warhol Found…The Andrew W Mellon F…Terra Foundation for …Via Art Fund IncArison Arts FoundationThe Ford FoundationHelen Frankenthaler F…Ag FoundationThe Cowles Charitable…The Henry Luce Founda…Milton and Sally Aver…Shelley & Donald Rubi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Teiger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Teiger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home