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The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc

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.

$893k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
104
Grants FY2024
61
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
61 to 238
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
30
Total assets, FY2024
$182M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving104$893k56%
FY202361$627k28%
FY2022115$616k38%
FY202180$877k75%
FY2020238$1.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.2MHealth$430kPublic Safety & Disaster$149kEducation$52k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United States Artists Inc$478,00018%
Antenna$215,000210%
Baltimore Museum of Art$140,00020%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$100,00010%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$10,30010%
Georgia Museums Inc$8,40010%
The Dayton Art Institute$6,79610%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$5,80010%
University of Chicago$4,00010%
Worcester Art Museum$3,79610%
Rhode Island School of Design$2,41610%
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art$2,20010%

Plus 405 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $478,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetAntenna: $215,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $140,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Museums Inc: $8,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dayton Art Institute: $6,796 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorcester Art Museum: $3,796 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island School of Design: $2,416 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc 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.

About The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc

How much does The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc give?
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc reported 104 grants totaling $893,292 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 238 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Health (9%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).
Who are The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United States Artists Inc ($478k), Antenna ($215k), Baltimore Museum of Art ($140k).
Does The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc based?
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 417 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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