· Private foundation
The J Paul Getty Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k293 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k140 grants · $3.8M
- $50k–250k37 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+22 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION | $10,909,326 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES | $1,550,000 |
| CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP | $1,000,000 |
| MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV | $846,226 |
| JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY | $442,500 |
| LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY | $420,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TATE GALLERY | $408,850 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $365,000 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $343,530 |
| ICA LA | $335,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON | $331,667 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $310,000 |
| COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC | $304,000 |
| SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH | $300,000 |
| FUNDACION DEL MUSEO GUGGENHEIM BILBAO | $286,454 |
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.
Your US giving — 72% of grant dollars ($118M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($47M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
Beyond the US — 28% of all-years giving ($47M)
72 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The J Paul Getty Trust’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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
671 repeat relationships — 236 still active in FY2025, 435 since wound down; 220 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M 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
- CFCenter for Cultural Innovation2× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue ×31 · 43% of their budget
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES7× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +33%
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES6× · 2020–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IAINTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF HERITAGE IN CONFLICT AREASone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- AFARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $502k · revenue +1%
- STStichting tot Beheer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningenone grant, 2018 · $346k
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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for La and the most unlike its peers is The Broad. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
584 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. 584 of the 1,987 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Cultural Innovation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION CRENSHAW ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VINCENT PRICE ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ICA LA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE AAMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ↗
- Who funds SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · California Humanities · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Pasadena Art Alliance · The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts · The Rose Hills Foundation · Snap Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc
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 J Paul Getty Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.