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The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$709k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$230kEmployment$81kCivil Rights$55kPublic Benefit$45kEnvironment$20kSocial Science$18kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $269k
$28,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN$130,000
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$85,000
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU$54,000
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT$35,000
CLOCKSHOP$30,000
LAXART DBA THE BRICK$30,000
HUMAN RESOURCES LOAS ANGELES$30,000
COAXIAL ARTS FOUNDATION$28,000
THE MUSEUM OF JURAISSAC TECHNOLOGY$28,000
FULCRUM ARTS$28,000
LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHBITIONS (LACE)$28,000
SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART$28,000
LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT$26,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARSTREDCAT$26,000
JOAN$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $40k → 14%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $85k → 17%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT-MOCAD: $50k → 21%UNITED STATES ARTISTS FISCAL AGENT FOR ARTIST RELIEF: $50k → 14%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU: $54k → 16%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%THE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC: $45k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT-MOCAD: $50k → 21%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT-MOCAD: $50k → 21%PIETER: $45k → 14%THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $35k → 21%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $35k → 21%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONS AND BOTANCIAL GARDENS: $45k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART-DETROIT: $30k → 21%VINCENT PRICE MUSEUM: $50k → 14%VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%PIETER: $30k → 14%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS - DBA REDCAT: $50k → 14%HUMAN RESOURCES LA INC: $45k → 14%LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $40k → 14%THE INDUSTRY: $40k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $40k → 14%HUMAN RESOURCES LOS ANGELES: $40k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FISCAL AGENT FOR RELIEF FUND FOR LA COUNTY: $30k → 14%LAXART: $45k → 14%PASADENA ARTS COUNCIL: $36k → 14%IF INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%REDCAT ROY AND EDNA DISNEYCALARTS THEATER: $40k → 14%JOAN LOS ANGELES: $45k → 14%CENTER FOR THE ART OF PERFORMANCE UCLA: $46k → 14%LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT: $45k → 14%DIRTY LOOKS: $45k → 14%ECHO PARK FILM CENTER: $36k → 14%SELF-HELP GRAPHICS AND ARTS INC: $40k → 14%ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $40k → 14%POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $40k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $130k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $100k → 14%ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $45k → 14%FULCRUM ARTS FISCAL SPONSOR FOR HOMELA: $45k → 14%18TH STREET ARTS CENTER: $45k → 14%FULCRUM ARTS: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM CAL STATE LONG BEACH: $40k → 14%LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS DBA LACE: $50k → 14%FILMFORUM INC: $45k → 14%LA FREEWAVES: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 26 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
43

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+13%

Still filing today

77%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +0%
  • AC
    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $230k · revenue +22%
  • FA
    FULCRUM ARTS
    5× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS - DBA REDCAT
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS DBA LACE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • US
    UNITED STATES ARTISTS FISCAL AGENT FOR ARTIST RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive

Art archive, library, and exhibition platform that collects underexposed artistic mode of expression happening in our current moment. sustains a unique experimental environment for critical inquiry; artistic research, and public dialogue

Arts & Culture
3
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…

Arts & Culture
4
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

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7
Art Explorium
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8
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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9
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
10
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
11
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
12
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ica La and the most unlike its peers is Pieter. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr10%27%35–55yr12%17%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
16%
7,866/49,767

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.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 78 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT — $350,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROITARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $120,500 · Arts & CultureARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTSTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Arts & CultureCLOCKSHOP — $80,000 · Arts & CultureVINCENT PRICE ART FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Arts & CultureECHO PARK FILM CENTER — $76,000 · Arts & CultureFILMFORUM INC — $75,000 · Arts & CulturePieter — $75,000 · Arts & Culture18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX — $70,000 · Arts & CultureSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC — $68,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRICK — $65,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more — $805,000 · Arts & Culture+25 moreFULCRUM ARTS — $177,000 · OtherFULCRUM ARTSLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT — $156,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENTHUMAN RESOURCES LOS ANGELES — $91,000 · OtherHUMAN RESOURCES LOS ANGELESVINCENT PRICE MUSEUM — $75,000 · OtherLA FREEWAVES — $65,000 · OtherJoan Los Angeles — $60,000 · Other+30 more — $930,500 · Other+30 moreART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $230,000 · EducationWOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK — $55,000 · Civil RightsAmerican Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc — $54,000 · InternationalVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $25,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $18,000 · Social ScienceLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $40,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,949,500Other$1,554,500Education$230,000Civil Rights$55,000International$54,000Social Science$43,000Community Improvement$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT — $350,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $230,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS — $177,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT — $156,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $120,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLOCKSHOP — $80,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetVINCENT PRICE ART FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetECHO PARK FILM CENTER — $76,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetFILMFORUM INC — $75,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPieter — $75,000 over 2y, 27% of budget18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX — $70,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC — $68,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLA FREEWAVES — $65,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetTHE BRICK — $65,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetJoan Los Angeles — $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK — $55,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc — $54,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY — $53,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCOAXIAL ARTS FOUNDATION — $48,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCES LA INC HRLA — $45,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC — $45,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE INDUSTRY PRODUCTIONS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIDE STREET PROJECTS — $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAVENUE 50 STUDIO INC — $30,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetHIGHWAYS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS — $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Baroque Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFUTURE ROOTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVELASLAVASAY PANORAMA — $24,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAUTOMATA ARTS — $23,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS — $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION — $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetICA LA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA River Public Art Project — $17,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY — $13,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACTIVE CULTURES — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
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.

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.

The J Paul Getty TrustCalifornia Community …The Wilhelm Family Fo…Perenchio FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…The Andy Warhol Found…Pasadena Art AllianceCalifornia HumanitiesThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Ccf Community Initiat…
The J Paul Getty TrustCA55.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The J Paul Getty Trust · California Community Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm · Perenchio Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Pasadena Art Alliance · California Humanities · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund

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 Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts?

    Find your warmest path to The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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