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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$419k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$7.6MEducation$495kHealth$432kInternational$275kYouth Development$25kFood & Nutrition$15kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
$12,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$192M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI$12,500
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART$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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The University of Delaware: $35k → 10%THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $2.3M → 14%BARD COLLEGE: $135k → 9%Iris House: $25k → 17%Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George: $50k → 14%Henry M Jackson Foundation: $50k → 10%The Peabody Essex Museum: $20k → 10%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $2.3M → 14%Bard College: $60k → 9%Voces Latinas: $50k → 13%Adolescent AIDS Program at Montefiore Medical Cent: $25k → 28%BARD COLLEGE: $60k → 9%Whitney Museum of American Art: $25k → 17%BARD COLLEGE: $60k → 9%KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $40k → 9%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $20k → 17%BARD COLLEGE: $60k → 9%Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies: $50k → 9%Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT): $25k → 20%CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AT BARD COLLEGE: $50k → 9%Bard College: $50k → 9%ACRIA: $25k → 17%ACRIA: $20k → 17%American Academy in Rome: $75k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $50k → 17%American Academy in Rome: $50k → 17%American Academy in Rome: $50k → 17%American Academy in Rome: $50k → 17%Whiteny Museum of American Art: $163k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $138k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%aperture foundation: $18k → 17%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $57k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $38k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $38k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $38k → 17%The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): $50k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $50k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA): $25k → 17%THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $30k → 17%ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $118k → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $300k → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $195k → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $175k → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $175k → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $175k → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $20k → 17%Beth Israel Medical Center: $50k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
DE
SC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 27 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
77

Total granted

$5.1M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+12%

Still filing today

93%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    2× · 2019–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +89%
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +43%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +256%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $2.3M · revenue -17%
  • WM
    Whiteny Museum of American Art
    one grant, 2017 · $163k
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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.

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The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
4
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Baltimore Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Art Explorium
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
44/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $2,300,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,056,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $307,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART+41 more: $705,441 · Arts & Culture+41 moreTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $2,290,500 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST+3 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyWhiteny Museum of American Art: $162,500 · OtherWhiteny Museu…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN …The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): $75,000 · OtherThe Museum of…ACRIA: $68,200 · OtherACRIACENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AT BARD COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CU…Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies: $60,000 · OtherBard College …ARTIST ROOMS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherARTIST ROOMS …Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George: $50,000 · OtherHenry M Jackson Foundation: $49,984 · Other+33 more: $366,200 · Other+33 moreBARD COLLEGE: $435,000 · Education+6 more: $50,000 · EducationELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 · HealthBAILEY HOUSE INC: $60,675 · HealthVOCES LATINAS CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $40,000 · HealthIRIS HOUSE - A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC: $35,000 · Health+3 more: $13,750 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $275,000 · InternationalTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $4,500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$4,368,941Philanthropy$2,310,500Other$1,051,884Education$485,000Health$371,925International$275,000Community Improvement$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $2,300,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $2,290,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,056,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $435,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $307,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $275,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $97,325 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $64,650 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBAILEY HOUSE INC: $60,675 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVOCES LATINAS CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $44,456 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIRIS HOUSE - A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY AIDS MEMORIAL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $24,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRobert Wilson Arts Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisual Arts Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART PRODUCTION FUND INC: $6,810 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 VOCES LATINAS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds IRIS HOUSE - A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • 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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗

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 Andy Warhol Found…Ibm International Fou…The Henry Luce Founda…Arison Arts FoundationE Rhodes and Leona B …The Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…Ag FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…The New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal Fund
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc 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 108 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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