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The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitEducationInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving10$142k10%
FY202310$153k30%
FY202211$185k36%
FY202113$204k54%
FY20203$40k67%
FY20197$75k71%
FY20185$60k20%
FY20175$55kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$763kPhilanthropy$149kEducation$50kHealth$12kInternational$8k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Craft Contemporary$158,00083%
The Second Stage Theatre Inc$87,00040%
47 Palmer Inc$60,00041%
The Sterling Foundation$53,000338%
St Vrain Valley Educational Foundation Inc$50,00023%
National Comedy Center Inc$42,00040%
Beth Morrison Projects Inc$39,00022%
Friends of American Song Archives Inc$37,00031%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$27,50030%
Berklee College of Music Inc$25,00020%
Bang on a Can$23,00011%
The Fire Department Theatre Company Inc$20,0001n/a
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art$15,00021%
Exapno New Music Community Center Inc$14,0001n/a
St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc$12,00010%
Folk Alliance International$12,00011%
DC Abortion Fund$12,00010%
Fund for Reconciliation & Development$7,50018%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCraft Contemporary: $158,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetThe Second Stage Theatre Inc: $87,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget47 Palmer Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetThe Sterling Foundation: $53,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetSt Vrain Valley Educational Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNational Comedy Center Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBeth Morrison Projects Inc: $39,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of American Song Archives Inc: $37,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBerklee College of Music Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBang on a Can: $23,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern Alleghenies Museum of Art: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSt Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFolk Alliance International: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDC Abortion Fund: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFund for Reconciliation & Development: $7,500 over 1y, 8.2% 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 16.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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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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 The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund

How much does The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund give?
The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund reported 11 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (78%), Philanthropy (15%), Education (5%).
Who are The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Craft Contemporary ($158k), The Second Stage Theatre Inc ($87k), 47 Palmer Inc ($60k).
Does The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund 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 The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund based?
The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund is based in CA.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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