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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
New York Historical Society$50,000
Penn Museum$50,000
Schweinfurth Art Center$50,000
The Frick Collection$50,000
Lyndhurst$40,000
Clark Art Institute$40,000
Historic Deerfield$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

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 AT FIT: $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 of Fashion Institute of Technology: $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
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

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
MD
DE
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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%
+17%

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
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

  • 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%
  • HD
    HF DUFONT WINTERTHUR MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Museum at FIT: $175,000 · OtherMuseum at FITMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $175,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONcooper-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 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 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 budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $55,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 budgetLEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $35,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $35,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $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 budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $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 budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

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

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 Coby Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Coby Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 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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