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Terra Foundation for American Art

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
236
Grants FY2025still arriving
40
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$69MEducation$5.1MScience & Tech$1.1MInternational$571kEnvironment$334kHousing & Shelter$330kRecreation & Sports$265kPublic Benefit$200kOther$0
02FY2025 · 236 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k100 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k122 grants · $11M
  • $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
$50,000
Median grant
40
States reached
$621M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$200,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$200,000
ABBOTSFORD CULTURAL CENTRE$200,000
MUSE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTRAL$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$200,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE$200,000
INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM: $150k → 16%OPENDOX ORG INC: $50k → 16%CHINATOWN MEDIA AND ARTS COLLABORATIVE: $22k → 10%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: $50k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: $10k → 14%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

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ME
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AZ
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AR
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NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($18M)

28 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$4.7M · 63 grants
France$3.5M · 43 grants
Germany$2.5M · 36 grants
Brazil$1.5M · 13 grants
Canada$1.1M · 14 grants
Spain$617k · 7 grants
Australia$569k · 4 grants
Japan$537k · 4 grants
South Africa$425k · 3 grants
Switzerland$401k · 4 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 180 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

180
306

Total granted

$46M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +305%
  • SS
    South Side Community Art Center
    4× · 2021–2025 · $921k · revenue +116% · 42% of their budget
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    4× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • PD
    PINACOTECA DO ESTADO DE SO PAULO
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • I
    IFF
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • GA
    GREY ART MUSEUM NYU
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
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.

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Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Art Explorium
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3
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
Arnot Art Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
10
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
11
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
12
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art; 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.
04the grantee network

319 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
318/319
Grantees still filing
174/319
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART FUND: $5,250,000 · OtherTERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART FUNDSMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM AND THE RENWICK GALLERY: $1,608,595 · OtherPINACOTECA DO ESTADO DE SO PAULO: $1,136,525 · Other+102 more: $25,172,489 · Other+102 moreTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,030,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $875,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $747,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $713,150 · Arts & Culture+70 more: $17,283,984 · Arts & Culture+70 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $578,400 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $500,000 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $386,800 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $360,000 · EducationPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $192,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $180,181 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $175,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationColumbia College Chicago: $145,000 · Education+5 more: $590,000 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $495,200 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC: $200,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC: $153,037 · Community ImprovementFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human Services
Other$33,167,609Arts & Culture$20,649,634Education$4,032,381International$495,200Public Benefit$200,000Community Improvement$153,037Human Services$150,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,030,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSouth Side Community Art Center: $921,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $875,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $747,500 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $713,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $637,660 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $578,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $569,260 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $553,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $542,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $535,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $530,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $525,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $495,200 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $480,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art: $388,350 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $386,800 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $375,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $360,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $335,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $328,248 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $325,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $322,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $310,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $300,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $300,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $300,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $284,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSWISS INSTITUTE: $279,600 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $276,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetSMARTHISTORY INC: $272,250 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM: $260,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $260,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $255,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRICK: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $211,957 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $208,613 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART: $202,455 over 5y, 24% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Andrew W Mellon F…The Andy Warhol Found…The Henry Luce Founda…Helen Frankenthaler F…Field Foundation of I…Gaylord and Dorothy D…Teiger FoundationBuilders Vision Found…The Ford FoundationVia Art Fund IncPolk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …
The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNY102.7× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Terra Foundation for American Art funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terra Foundation for American Art. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 607 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home