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· Private foundation

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
203
Grants FY2025still arriving
39
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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$87MEnvironment$833kCivil Rights$490kEducation$452kYouth Development$450kEmployment$246kPhilanthropy$218kHousing & Shelter$215kOther$0
02FY2025 · 203 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $2.6M
  • $50k–250k125 grants · $9.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.9M
$50,000
Median grant
39
States reached
$391M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION$1,775,871
CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION$1,590,000
J PAUL GETTY TRUST$1,000,000
ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM$500,000
Individual grant recipient$178,228
WALKER ART CENTER$150,000
BIG CAR$110,000
PU'UHONUA SOCIETY$105,000
SPACES$102,083
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART$101,389
CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION$101,200
PUBLIC SPACE ONE$100,642
3ARTS$100,590
CULTURE SOURCE$100,489
516 ARTS$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $18.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $100k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $100k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $100k → 22%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $3.4M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 17%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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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77M · 292 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

292 repeat relationships: 121 still active in FY2025, 171 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

292
159

Total granted

$77M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+14%

Still filing today

70%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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 & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18M · revenue +3% · 58% of their budget
  • PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $870k · revenue +33%
  • DI
    DIVERSEWORKS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $855k · revenue +14% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $450k
  • BM
    BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • PA
    PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -20%
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
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California Institute of Contemporary Art
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Art Explorium
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The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
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Berggruen Institute
Education
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Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
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International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
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The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
Art Ambassador
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New Art Association
Arts & Culture
11
Fisher Art Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc; the most unlike its peers is Insite. 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

322 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. 322 of the 517 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
316/322
Grantees still filing
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Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+128 more: $35,583,293 · Arts & Culture+128 moreCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $18,389,280 · Human ServicesCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION+1 more: $300,000 · Human ServicesANDY WARHOL MUSEUM: $2,802,000 · OtherANDY WARHOL MUSEUMCOMMON FIELD: $1,000,000 · OtherCOMMON FIELDIndividual grant recipient: $700,000 · OtherALABAMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $600,000 · OtherTUFTS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES: $575,000 · OtherTRI-STAR ARTS: $500,000 · Other+55 more: $8,390,728 · Other+55 moreAntenna: $900,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $175,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $100,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $100,000 · EducationTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC: $450,000 · Civil RightsHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $100,000 · International
Arts & Culture$35,583,293Human Services$18,689,280Other$14,567,728Education$1,385,000Philanthropy$1,000,000Civil Rights$450,000Youth Development$100,000International$100,000

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 budgetCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $18,389,280 over 6y, 58% of budgetCOMMON FIELD: $1,000,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAntenna: $900,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetPORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $870,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetDIVERSEWORKS INC: $854,900 over 6y, 41% of budgetWASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS INC: $840,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION: $801,200 over 6y, 14% of budgetSouthern Exposure: $800,000 over 6y, 28% of budget516 Arts: $800,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetTHE LUMINARY INC: $800,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetLOCUST PROJECTS INC: $780,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetMIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART: $751,389 over 6y, 14% of budgetBIG CAR MEDIA INC: $710,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $700,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC: $700,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetPROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE INC: $700,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TUCSON: $700,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $700,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $650,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetSPACES: $602,083 over 6y, 58% of budgetOklahoma Visual Arts Coalition: $600,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetDirt Palace Public Projects: $575,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetCULTURESOURCE: $500,489 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetVisual Art Exchange Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $500,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetBETA-LOCAL INC: $450,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC: $450,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER INC: $400,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $400,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $400,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budget3ARTS INC: $300,590 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThreewalls: $300,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetART21 INC: $300,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $300,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPERFORMA INC: $300,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetUS Biennial Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetPUBLIC SPACE ONE: $260,642 over 2y, 32% of budgetBuffalo Institute for Contemporary Art: $260,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $250,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC: $250,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $240,000 over 4y, 4.9% 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 CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMON FIELD ↗
  • Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Antenna ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds DIVERSEWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southern Exposure ↗
  • Who funds 516 Arts ↗
  • Who funds THE LUMINARY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCUST PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds BIG CAR MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TUCSON ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
  • Who funds SPACES ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Dirt Palace Public Projects ↗
  • Who funds CULTURESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
  • Who funds Visual Art Exchange Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds BETA-LOCAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗

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.

Via Art Fund IncThe Andrew W Mellon F…Terra Foundation for …Teiger FoundationRobert Rauschenberg F…The Wilhelm Family Fo…Rdk FoundationHelen Frankenthaler F…The Cowles Charitable…Arison Arts FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe J Paul Getty Trust
Via Art Fund IncNY110.9× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Via Art Fund Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Teiger Foundation · Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm · Rdk Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Arison Arts Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust

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 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation: 77% of income from government
  • Real Art Ways Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Gather Make Shelter: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nxthvn Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
73report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 517 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home