· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAFT CONTEMPORARY | $25,000 |
| ST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT | $25,000 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $23,000 |
| SONGWRITING WITH SOLDIERS INC | $15,000 |
| 47 PALMER INC | $15,000 |
| DC ABORTION FUND | $12,000 |
| KURT VONNEGUT LIBRARY AND MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SPIRE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 19% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 12%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $87k · revenue +185%
- 4P47 Palmer Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +121%
- BMBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC2× · 2019–2021 · $39k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- BOBANG ON A CANgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +70%
- TFThe Fire Department Theatre Company Incone grant, 2022 · $20k
- ENEXAPNO NEW MUSIC COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $14k
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.
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.
Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Our primary mission is to present concerts that represent the music of AACM Composers. The concert activities are designed to bring new American music to the general public and to create an atmosphere that is conducive for the artistically…
Art of Opera is dedicated to creating opera, music theater and multimedia based projects, commissioning composers to compose and arrange music for small chamber concerts and supporting the release of recordings.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 47 Palmer Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STERLING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BANG ON A CAN ↗
- Who funds The Fire Department Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DC ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR RECONCILIATION & DEVELOPMENT ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 47 Palmer Inc: 3% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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