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The Muriel Pollia Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $323k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $528k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY | $175,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| NEW YORK LIVE ARTS | $60,000 |
| HUMANITAS | $55,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $53,000 |
| GOODMAN THEATRE | $45,000 |
| INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| FORWARD TOGETHER WISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| THE ROTHKO CHAPEL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE DOLORES HUERTA FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL | $20,500 |
| FALLEN FRUIT-FULCRUM ARTS | $20,000 |
| NEW GEORGIA PROJECT | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
50 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 17 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
Vanderbilt University6× · 2020–2025 · $408k · revenue +65%- NYNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $263k · revenue +36%
DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- LDLIVING DESERT THEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +100%
- ACART COUNCIL INCone grant, 2021 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNEone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -5%
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.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
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 Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
A contemporary art space that provides direct support to artists through exhibition opportunities, live commissions, and public programs. in recent years, the exhibition program has grown to present six major exhibitions per year…
Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimaginging the possibilities of art in public life.
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
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,…
See schedule osculpturecenter leads the conversation on contemporary art by supporting artistic innovation and independent thought highlighting sculpture's specific potential to change the way we engage with the world. positioning artists'…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ted Foundation Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 98 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.
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- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
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- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
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- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc ↗
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- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Forward Together Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds THE HOMETOWN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WAVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NXTHVN INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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 Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · California Community Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm
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 Muriel Pollia Foundation 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.
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit 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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