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The Coby Foundation Ltd

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.

$789k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.7MScience & Tech$60kEducation$50kEnvironment$30kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $399k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $390k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Hudson Heritage Network$80,000
Maine State Museum$60,000
Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design$50,000
Schweinfurth Art Center$50,000
Penn Museum$50,000
The Frick Collection$50,000
New York Historical Society$50,000
Historic Deerfield$40,000
Lyndhurst$40,000
Clark Art Institute$40,000
Ars Nova Workshop$35,000
American Folk Art Museum$30,000
Hispanic Society of America$30,000
Hispanic Society of America$25,000
Trustees of Smith College$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $35k → 8%PEABODY-ESSEX MUSEUM: $40k → 10%Clark Art Institute: $40k → 12%Historic Deerfield: $40k → 14%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $75k → 16%BRANDVIEW RIVER MUSEUM: $35k → 6%HF DUFONT WINTERTHUR MUSEUM: $50k → 12%BARNES FOUNDATION: $40k → 22%Greater Hudson Heritage Network: $80k → 9%The Sembrich: $30k → 10%Schweinfurth Art Center: $50k → 13%Everson Museum: $45k → 14%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $50k → 14%Flo GriswoldLyme Hist Soc: $35k → 9%Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design: $50k → 14%Newark Museum of Art: $30k → 16%Maine State Museum: $60k → 12%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $50k → 16%EVERSON MUSEUM: $40k → 14%Madison Square Conservancy: $50k → 17%ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART: $45k → 14%RISD Museum: $40k → 14%Mass MoCA: $40k → 12%Museum of Fine Arts Boston: $50k → 16%Penn Museum: $50k → 22%Katonah Museum of Art: $35k → 9%Everson Museum of Art: $35k → 14%The Frick Collection: $50k → 17%Ars Nova Workshop: $35k → 22%Museum at FIT: $75k → 17%GWU TEXTILE MUSEUM: $50k → 14%FABRIC WORKSHOP & MUSEUM: $75k → 22%Museum of Fashion Institute of Technology: $50k → 17%GWU Textile Museum: $50k → 14%Fabric Workshop and Museum: $60k → 22%Lyndhurst: $40k → 9%The Museum at FIT: $50k → 17%Science History Institute: $60k → 22%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $100k → 17%MUSEUM AT FIT: $50k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $75k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $40k → 17%cooper-hewitt museum: $100k → 17%NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75k → 17%New York Historical Society: $50k → 17%Bard Graduate Center: $40k → 17%Bard Graduate Center: $40k → 17%BARD GRADUATE CENTER: $40k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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RI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 20 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
65

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

65%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentScience & TechEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2019–2022 · $175k · revenue +76%
  • NY
    New York Historical Society
    2× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +5%
  • GH
    GREATER HUDSON HERITAGE NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • WM
    Winterthur Museum Garden Library
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • SH
    SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • MO
    Museum of Fashion Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Art Explorium
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3
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
6
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
7
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
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
11
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
12
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 67 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%58%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%54%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,508

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 101 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON — $175,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONMuseum at FIT — $175,000 · OtherMuseum at FITcooper-hewitt museum — $140,000 · Othercooper-hewitt museumBard Graduate Center — $120,000 · OtherBard Graduate CenterGWU Textile Museum — $100,000 · OtherEverson Museum — $85,000 · OtherGREATER HUDSON HERITAGE NETWORK — $81,000 · OtherWinterthur Museum Garden Library — $75,000 · Other+44 more — $1,269,500 · Other+44 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $175,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTNew York Historical Society — $125,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $60,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $55,000 · Arts & Culture+36 more — $950,000 · Arts & Culture+36 moreThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $135,000 · EmploymentMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationSETON HILL UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationThe New School — $5,000 · EducationSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE — $60,000 · Science & TechTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,220,500Arts & Culture$1,430,000Employment$135,000Education$90,000Science & Tech$60,000Environment$30,000Community Improvement$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $135,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER HUDSON HERITAGE NETWORK — $81,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $55,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM — $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART — $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $35,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Ibm International Fou…Terra Foundation for …Fidelity FoundationFidelity Non-Profit M…E Rhodes and Leona B …Boston Foundation IncLGT FoundationWyeth Foundation for …Leon Levy FoundationGreater Hudson Herita…Highland Street Conne…New England Foundatio…
Ibm International FoundationNY30.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Fidelity Foundation · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · LGT Foundation · Wyeth Foundation for American Art · Leon Levy Foundation · Greater Hudson Heritage Network · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated

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 Coby Foundation Ltd 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Coby Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to The Coby Foundation Ltd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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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