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The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
113
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$20MEducation$6.2MYouth Development$2.5MPhilanthropy$327kHuman Services$190kAnimals$39kInternational$34kEnvironment$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $3.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$198M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED NEGO COLLEGE FUND INC$1,000,000
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$688,452
THE NEW MUSEUM$210,000
SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$150,000
CITY LORE$150,000
MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS CENTER$150,000
THE POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$125,000
COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT$125,000
THE DREAMYARD PROJECT$125,000
UPBEAT NYC$120,000
THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM$100,000
STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING$100,000
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS$100,000
IRONDALE PRODUCTIONS$100,000
JOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION$75,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.

area typical 11%EVERGREEN ACTION: $3k → 14%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $100k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $100k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $100k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $25k → 20%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $76k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $60k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $50k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28M · 152 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

152 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152
57

Total granted

$28M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+28%

Still filing today

74%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $517k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +74%
  • PT
    PEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $775k · revenue +42% · 25% of their budget
  • CL
    CITY LORE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Pierpont Morgan Librarygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $230k · revenue +109%
  • DI
    DISCALCED INC
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -3%
  • SC
    SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $150k

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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…

Public Benefit
3
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
4
The Studio Museum in Harlem

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,…

Arts & Culture
5
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
7
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
10
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
11
Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…

12
Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Please see schedule o for the complete mission statement.berkeley repertory theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Audiences New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is The People's Choice for President. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr22%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr9%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr22%44%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr9%10%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/152
the rest of the field
12%
5,649/48,542

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

149 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 149 of the 229 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/149
Grantees still filing
101/149
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC — $775,000 · Arts & CulturePEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INCCITY LORE INC — $750,000 · Arts & CultureCITY LORE INCTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $600,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $600,000 · Arts & CultureBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC — $525,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC — $495,000 · Arts & CultureUPBEAT NYC INC — $440,000 · Arts & Culture+78 more — $8,447,950 · Arts & Culture+78 moreENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE MATHEMATICS & TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL — $775,513 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE MATHEMATICS & TECH…THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $728,452 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCSUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $556,000 · OtherThe Point Community Development Corporation — $540,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE ARMORY — $525,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERA — $475,000 · OtherTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · OtherIrondale Productions Inc — $400,000 · Other+82 more — $6,164,801 · Other+82 moreUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $3,000,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLL…COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC — $375,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY-WORD PR…The Pierpont Morgan Library — $230,000 · Education826NYC Inc — $200,000 · EducationURBAN WORD NYC INC — $180,000 · Education+10 more — $662,500 · Education+10 moreREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC — $450,000 · Youth DevelopmentNYC SALT INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $325,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $186,000 · Human Services+1 more — $4,500 · Human ServicesRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST — $269,500 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropySOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $110,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$13,132,950Other$10,614,766Education$4,647,500Youth Development$540,000Human Services$515,500Philanthropy$279,500Community Improvement$110,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $3,000,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC — $775,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetCITY LORE INC — $750,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $728,452 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $600,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $600,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation — $540,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC — $525,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $500,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC — $495,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC — $450,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetUPBEAT NYC INC — $440,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetIrondale Productions Inc — $400,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC — $375,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetSTELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING — $350,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC — $325,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $300,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $275,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE — $275,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST — $269,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $230,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDRAMA CLUB INC — $225,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $220,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $212,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEPIC THEATRE CENTER INC — $210,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTHE NOEL POINTER FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budget826NYC Inc — $200,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER — $195,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $193,050 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $186,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE — $185,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN WORD NYC INC — $180,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC — $175,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $170,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetART FOR PROGRESS INC — $160,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetWILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS INC — $160,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $153,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC — $150,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetDISCALCED INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDORILL INITIATIVE INC — $150,000 over 4y, 98% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetART START INC — $140,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCUMBE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND DIASPORA DANCE INC — $135,000 over 3y, 5.3% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds CITY LORE INC
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC
  • Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC
  • Who funds The Point Community Development Corporation
  • Who funds BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC
  • Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC
  • Who funds MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC
  • Who funds THE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC
  • Who funds UPBEAT NYC INC
  • Who funds Irondale Productions Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC
  • Who funds STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING
  • Who funds JOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC
  • Who funds QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC
  • Who funds EXPLORING THE ARTS INC
  • Who funds GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE
  • Who funds RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST
  • Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC
  • Who funds BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION
  • Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library
  • Who funds DRAMA CLUB INC
  • Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC
  • Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Who funds EPIC THEATRE CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE NOEL POINTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds 826NYC Inc

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 Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ93.6× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Ford Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Altman Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation

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 Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art5% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 229 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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