· Private foundation
The Matthew Marks Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $95,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS | $10,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| HUDSON HIGHLANDS LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| THE NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE | $10,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SCENIC HUDSON INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS SPACE | $5,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
| LAXART | $5,000 |
| MANITOGA INC | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MOMuseum of Modern Art5× · 2020–2024 · $297k · revenue +38%
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +305%
- HHHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +183%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
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,…
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).
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of 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,…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc and the most unlike its peers is Putnam County Sheriffs Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 74 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
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 Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRICK ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE COLUMNS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GARRISON'S LANDING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · Lostand Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Matthew Marks Charitable 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.
- Bennington College Corporation — 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.
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