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The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$665k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$230kEmployment$81kCivil Rights$55kPublic Benefit$45kEnvironment$20kSocial Science$18kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $420k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION$100,000
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$85,000
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT$50,000
18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX$45,000
FULCRUM ARTS$45,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARSTREDCAT$45,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
FUTURE ROOTS$40,000
JOAN$40,000
LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION$38,000
SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART$35,000
LAXART DBA THE BRICK$35,000
HUMAN RESOURCES LOS ANGELES$32,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MODERNA MUSEET$10,000
PRINTED MATTER INC$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $40k → 14%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%THE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC: $45k → 14%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $85k → 17%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT-MOCAD: $50k → 21%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $85k → 17%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT-MOCAD: $50k → 21%PIETER PERFORMANCE SPACE: $45k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%PIETER: $45k → 14%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART COLLECTIONS AND BOTANCIAL GARDENS: $45k → 14%VINCENT PRICE MUSEUM: $50k → 14%VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION: $100k → 14%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS - DBA REDCAT: $50k → 14%HUMAN RESOURCES LA INC: $45k → 14%HUMAN RESOURCES LOS ANGELES: $40k → 14%THE INDUSTRY: $40k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $40k → 14%LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $40k → 14%LAXART: $45k → 14%IF INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARSTREDCAT: $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%SELF-HELP GRAPHICS AND ARTS INC: $40k → 14%ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $40k → 14%POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $40k → 14%JOAN: $40k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $130k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $100k → 14%FULCRUM ARTS: $45k → 14%ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $45k → 14%FULCRUM ARTS FISCAL SPONSOR FOR HOMELA: $45k → 14%18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX: $45k → 14%18TH STREET ARTS CENTER: $45k → 14%FULCRUM ARTS: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM CAL STATE LONG BEACH: $40k → 14%FUTURE ROOTS: $40k → 14%LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS DBA LACE: $50k → 14%FILMFORUM INC: $45k → 14%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 32 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
46

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+11%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +0%
  • AC
    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $230k · revenue +22%
  • FA
    FULCRUM ARTS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $54k · revenue 0%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS - DBA REDCAT
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • US
    UNITED STATES ARTISTS FISCAL AGENT FOR ARTIST RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
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
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
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
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
11
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ica La; the most unlike its peers is Automata Arts. 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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 82 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $400,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROITTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $170,000 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $120,500 · Arts & Culture18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX: $115,000 · Arts & CultureSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: $103,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Cultural Innovation: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+33 more: $1,399,000 · Arts & Culture+33 moreFULCRUM ARTS: $222,000 · OtherFULCRUM ARTSLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT: $156,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENTHUMAN RESOURCES LOS ANGELES: $123,000 · OtherHUMAN RESOURCES LOS ANGELESJOAN: $84,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherVINCENT PRICE MUSEUM: $75,000 · OtherLAXART DBA THE BRICK: $65,000 · OtherLA FREEWAVES: $65,000 · OtherJoan Los Angeles: $60,000 · Other+28 more: $831,500 · Other+28 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$2,407,500Other$1,761,500Education$230,000Civil Rights$55,000International$54,000Social Science$43,000Community Improvement$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $400,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $230,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS: $222,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT: $156,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $120,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budget18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX: $115,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: $103,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCenter for Cultural Innovation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVINCENT PRICE ART FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCLOCKSHOP: $80,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetECHO PARK FILM CENTER: $76,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetPieter: $75,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetFILMFORUM INC: $75,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $71,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRICK: $65,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLA FREEWAVES: $65,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetFUTURE ROOTS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION: $63,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetJoan Los Angeles: $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK: $55,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 3.7% 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 budgetSIDE STREET PROJECTS: $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE INDUSTRY PRODUCTIONS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHIGHWAYS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetAVENUE 50 STUDIO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Baroque Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetVELASLAVASAY PANORAMA: $24,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAUTOMATA ARTS: $23,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetICA LA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS: $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% 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 budgetPRINTED MATTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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 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

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 Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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