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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAFT CONTEMPORARY | $25,000 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| ST VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT | $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 |
| SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| SPIRE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund’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, 19% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 12% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
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 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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sterling Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 The A&V Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 47 Palmer Inc — 3% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% 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.
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