· Private foundation
Terra Foundation for American Art
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k100 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k122 grants · $11M
- $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION | $550,000 |
| FLOATING MUSEUM | $285,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $280,000 |
| CENTRE POMPIDOU | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| ZEITZ MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AFRICA | $250,000 |
| YINKA SHONIBARE FOUNDATION (LONDON) | $220,000 |
| CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | $201,882 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $200,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC | $200,000 |
| ABBOTSFORD CULTURAL CENTRE | $200,000 |
| MUSE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTRAL | $200,000 |
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 US giving — 77% of grant dollars ($60M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($18M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Beyond the US — 23% of all-years giving ($18M)
28 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
180 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2025, 91 since wound down; 113 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.3M 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
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM4× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +305%
- SSSouth Side Community Art Center4× · 2021–2025 · $921k · revenue +116% · 42% of their budget
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART4× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- PDPINACOTECA DO ESTADO DE SO PAULOone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- IIFFone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- GAGREY ART MUSEUM NYUone grant, 2023 · $350k
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.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The arnot art museum is an exhibiting and collecting fine arts museum, accredited by the american association of museums. the museum exhibits its permanent collection of 17th-19th century european paintings and sculpture; 19th century…
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration 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.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
319 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. 319 of the 607 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds South Side Community Art Center ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
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: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Teiger Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Via Art Fund Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur 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 Terra Foundation for American Art 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
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.