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The Greenwich Collection Ltd at a glance

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The Greenwich Collection Ltd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$172k
Granted FY2018
19
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$125MPhilanthropy$43kEducation$25kScience & Tech$20kCrime & Legal$16kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2018 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $121k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$96M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIVE MYLES$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
PRINTED MATTER$15,000
ELIZABETH FOUNDATION$14,000
BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL$12,000
YADDO$10,000
NY STUDIO SCHOOL$10,000
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL$10,000
ISPC$10,000
CITY AS LIVING LABORATORY$10,000
IPCNY$8,000
ARTISTS SPACE$8,000
PARTICIPANT INC$5,100
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ART IN GENERAL$5,000
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%YADDO: $10k → 7%BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL: $12k → 16%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $124.7M → 17%FIVE MYLES: $35k → 20%YADDO: $10k → 7%SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL: $15k → 17%FIVE MYLES: $15k → 20%NY STUDIO SCHOOL: $10k → 17%ISPC: $10k → 20%SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL: $10k → 17%URBAN GLASS: $5k → 20%NY STUDIO SCHOOL: $10k → 17%DAVID DIXON: $15k → 20%ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $29k → 17%DAVID DIXON: $15k → 20%ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $14k → 17%PRIMARY INFORMATION: $5k → 20%DIEU DONNE: $10k → 17%PRIMARY INFORMATION: $5k → 20%PRINTED MATTER: $15k → 17%BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL: $35k → 20%PRINTED MATTER: $15k → 17%ART IN GENERAL: $5k → 20%IPCNY: $8k → 17%SMACK MELLON: $5k → 20%IPCNY: $8k → 17%ART IN GENERAL: $5k → 20%VISUAL AIDS: $5k → 17%SMACK MELLON: $5k → 20%PARTICIPANT INC: $5k → 17%PARTICIPANT INC: $5k → 17%CITY AS LIVING LABORATORY: $10k → 17%ARTISTS SPACE: $10k → 17%CITY AS LIVING LABORATORY: $10k → 17%ARTISTS SPACE: $8k → 17%RECESS: $5k → 17%RECESS: $5k → 17%APEX ART: $5k → 17%APEX ART: $5k → 17%TRIPLE CANOPY: $5k → 17%TRIPLE CANOPY: $5k → 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.
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.

0%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$389k · 18 repeat orgs$125M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$389k
$125M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+91%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • BA
    BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $47k · revenue +58%
  • PM
    PRINTED MATTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +15%
  • AS
    ARTISTS SPACE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125M · revenue +150%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • VA
    VISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +91%
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.

1
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
6
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
8
New Art Association
Arts & Culture
9
Artists in Residence Inc

Support an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. as an artist-run organization, artists in residence fosters involvement through multiple tiers of representation:…

—
10
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
11
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
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 Participant 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $124,650,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC+11 more: $214,900 · Arts & CultureELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $43,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherCITY AS LIVING LABORATORY: $20,000 · OtherNY STUDIO SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherIPCNY: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherRECESS: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherISPC: $10,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$124,864,900Other$204,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFive Myles Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC: $47,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPRINTED MATTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetART IN GENERAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPRIMARY INFORMATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetVISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC: $4,900 over 1y, 0.2% 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 DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Five Myles Inc ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds PRINTED MATTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ART IN GENERAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTICIPANT INC ↗
  • Who funds PRIMARY INFORMATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds URBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC ↗

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.

The Andy Warhol Found…Brownstone Family Fou…Milton and Sally Aver…Shelley & Donald Rubi…The Cowles Charitable…Low Road FoundationVia Art Fund IncDaniel M Neidich & Br…Arison Arts FoundationHelen Frankenthaler F…Robert Rauschenberg F…Ag Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Brownstone Family Foundation · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Low Road Foundation · Via Art Fund Inc · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · Ag Foundation

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Greenwich Collection Ltd?

    Find your warmest path to The Greenwich Collection 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 23 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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