· Private foundation
The Pat Steir Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $20,000 |
| DANSPACE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| STREB INC | $15,000 |
| PRINTED MATTER | $15,000 |
| THE DRAWING CENTER | $12,500 |
| THE VILLAGE TEMPLE | $10,000 |
| ZEN MOUNTAIN MONASTERY INC | $10,000 |
| ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES | $10,000 |
| RIO GRANDE UNION INC | $10,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| POETRY PROJECT LTD | $10,000 |
| ARTIST SPACE | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +17%- TDTHE DRAWING CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +100%
- SISTREB INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CHCobble Hill Playschool Incone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
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 studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
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.
Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…
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…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
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…
The performance art museum (pam) is the first u.s. institution exclusively dedicated to the presentation and preservation of live art. our mission is to facilitate the powerful impact of live experiences that can profoundly transform our…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAWING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PRINTED MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds STREB INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE POETRY PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds Cobble Hill Playschool Inc ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE UNION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jerome Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pat Steir Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pat Steir Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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