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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$27MEducation$1.0MPhilanthropy$382kInternational$131kCommunity Improvement$125kEnvironment$50kCivil Rights$33kOther$6.7M
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$500,000
MOMA PS1$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
HAWAI'I CONTEMPORARY$150,000
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$150,000
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM OF ST LOUIS$150,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL PORTRAIT$150,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your 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

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

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

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 24% of Teiger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 39% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Teiger Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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

+13%
0%

Still filing today

79%
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

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

  • 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 FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2.2M · revenue +186%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sculpture Center Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/105
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,655

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 161 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/102
Grantees still filing
45/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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+66 more — $8,690,537 · Arts & Culture+66 moreFULCRUM ARTS — $1,200,000 · OtherFULCRUM ARTSIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…MOMA PS1 — $500,000 · OtherMOMA PS1FONDAZIONE LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA — $500,000 · OtherFONDAZIONE LA BIENNAL…CARNEGIE MUSEUMS — $275,500 · Other+63 more — $3,771,060 · Other+63 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$27,010,537Other$6,746,560Education$1,000,500Philanthropy$382,467International$131,175Community Improvement$125,000Environment$50,000Civil Rights$32,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $750,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $750,000 over 2y, 4.3% 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 budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $250,000 over 1y, 16% 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 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 budgetART21 INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNevada Museum of Art — $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC — $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% 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 budgetDIVERSEWORKS INC — $95,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC — $95,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 Contemporary Arts Center — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNAME PUBLICATIONS INC — $75,000 over 3y, 17% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Teiger Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your 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

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.

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 161 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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