· Private foundation
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $137,500 |
| ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC | $117,500 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| BAILEY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $12,500 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI | $12,500 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $10,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART | $1,969 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM | $1,200 |
| VISUAL ARTS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES2× · 2019–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +89%
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +43%
BARD COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- TJTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $2.3M · revenue -17%
- WMWhiteny Museum of American Artone grant, 2017 · $163k
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
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 huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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 61 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 108 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.
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAILEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds VOCES LATINAS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds IRIS HOUSE - A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY AIDS MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal 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 Robert Mapplethorpe 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% 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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