How much does The University of the Arts give?

The University of the Arts reported 65 itemized grants totaling $9,454,090, out of $43,014,289 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The University of the Arts fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Education (4%), Environment (2%).

Who are The University of the Arts's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($1.8M), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($1.5M), The Barnes Foundation ($1.4M).

Does The University of the Arts fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The University of the Arts?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc, The William Penn Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Where is The University of the Arts based?

The University of the Arts is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

The University of the Arts

The arts have the power to transform society. They play an essential role in ensuring and enhancing the quality of life. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS is committed to advancing human creativity and to inspiring, educating and preparing innovative artists and creative leaders for the arts of the 21st century.

$43M
Granted FY2023: 65
Itemized grants FY2023: 64
Organizations funded FY2023: 16%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2023: $9.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023: $120,000
Largest grant, FY2023: $534,400
Organizations funded a year: 53 to 65; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023: 2
Total assets, FY2023: $189M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The University of the Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $825k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechEnvironmentHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2023	64	$8.9M	16%
FY2022	61	$9.3M	3%
FY2021	53	$3.6M	25%
FY2020	53	$5.2M	15%
FY2019	54	$6.1M	19%
FY2018	65	$9.4M	34%
FY2017	59	$5.7M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$47MEducation$2.2MEnvironment$805kHuman Services$663kScience & Tech$486kReligion$375kHealth$313kAnimals$72kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$1,808,819	7	0%
Philadelphia Museum of Art	$1,525,000	6	1%
The Barnes Foundation	$1,363,000	5	3%
The Fabric Workshop and Museum	$1,287,770	7	18%
The Wilma Theater	$1,254,000	7	12%
Pig Iron Theatre Company Inc	$1,227,173	7	26%
Mann Center for the Performing Arts	$1,175,556	5	2%
The People's Light & Theatre Company	$1,149,400	6	9%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc	$1,095,500	6	3%
Francesco Von Mendelssohn Fund Inc	$1,053,402	6	n/a

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All grantees of The University of the Arts by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$1,808,819	7	0%
Philadelphia Museum of Art	$1,525,000	6	1%
The Barnes Foundation	$1,363,000	5	3%
The Fabric Workshop and Museum	$1,287,770	7	18%
The Wilma Theater	$1,254,000	7	12%
Pig Iron Theatre Company Inc	$1,227,173	7	26%
Mann Center for the Performing Arts	$1,175,556	5	2%
The People's Light & Theatre Company	$1,149,400	6	9%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc	$1,095,500	6	3%
Francesco Von Mendelssohn Fund Inc	$1,053,402	6	n/a
Drexel University	$1,010,766	7	0%
Fringearts	$993,600	6	11%
Philadelphia Orchestra Association	$914,000	4	1%
Asian Arts Initiative	$886,225	6	12%
Please Touch Museum	$796,820	4	4%
Opera Philadelphia	$784,250	5	2%
Arcadia University	$740,383	6	0%
National Constitution Center	$738,614	5	2%
Rector Church Wardens & Vestrymen of Christ Chrch of Philadelphia	$730,127	6	n/a
Partners for Sacred Places Inc	$720,000	3	24%
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia	$717,000	7	3%
The University of the Arts	$706,617	3	0%
Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial Inc	$703,500	6	4%
The Clay Studio	$683,750	5	3%
Swarthmore College	$648,000	5	0%
Curtis Institute of Music	$645,000	5	1%
Bryn Mawr College	$638,900	5	0%
Friends of the Japanese House and Garden	$637,111	4	25%
The Village of Arts and Humanities	$627,000	4	7%
The Franklin Institute	$610,000	2	1%
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Inc	$593,520	6	2%
Philadelphia Theatre Company	$585,000	2	13%
The Crossing Inc	$577,000	5	29%
The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Pa	$564,000	4	19%
Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image	$545,700	5	21%
The Library Company of Philadelphia	$519,070	4	10%
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia	$515,000	3	2%
Blackstar Projects Inc	$511,692	3	7%
Theatre Horizon Inc	$511,560	3	17%
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society	$473,452	5	1%
Prism Quartet Incorporated	$462,220	6	27%
African American Museum in Philadelphia	$414,480	4	7%
Historical Society of Pennsylvania	$398,680	4	8%
Bowerbird Inc	$385,600	6	70%
Beth Sholom Congregation	$375,000	3	n/a
Kimmel Center Inc	$370,955	3	0%
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	$366,024	3	1%
The Fund for the Water Works	$361,000	5	17%
Thomas Jefferson University	$360,000	3	0%
Association for Public Art	$360,000	2	9%
Fairmount Park Conservancy	$360,000	2	8%
Whyy Inc	$360,000	3	0%
William Way Lgbt Community Center	$350,260	3	10%
Ars Nova Workshop Inc	$346,590	5	13%
Pennsylvania Humanities Council	$345,000	3	11%
Philadelphia Contemporary	$340,294	3	16%
Presbyterian Church USA	$334,482	3	n/a
The Trust for Public Land	$331,250	3	0%
Broad Street Ministry	$312,500	3	2%
Maternity Care Coalition	$312,500	3	1%
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture	$307,920	5	8%
Philadelphia Folklore Project	$302,000	5	53%
The Print Center	$294,228	3	33%
Cliveden of the National Trust Inc	$290,680	5	24%
The Center for Art in Wood Inc	$288,000	3	15%
Girard College	$276,816	3	n/a
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation	$259,032	3	1%
International House Philadelphia	$252,182	3	n/a
Tempesta Di Mare Inc	$244,000	3	58%
Scribe Video Center Inc	$218,500	3	6%
Pennsbury Society	$211,200	3	19%
The Bucks County Historical Society Inc	$211,095	2	6%
Orchestra 2001 Inc	$206,800	3	66%
James a Michener Art Museum	$198,000	2	5%
The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia	$198,000	2	8%
Rair Inc	$185,200	6	26%
Historic Germantown Preserved	$183,960	5	8%
Kun-Yang Lindancers	$180,000	1	n/a
Headlong Dance Theater Inc	$176,400	2	5%
Ego Po Inc	$163,800	3	17%
South Asian American Digital Archive Nfp	$154,000	5	24%
The John Bartram Association	$151,500	2	2%
Jazz Bridge Project Inc	$144,000	4	42%
Museum of Black Joy	$135,000	1	n/a
New Paradise Laboratories Theatre Inc	$124,800	2	27%
Monument Lab Inc	$124,000	1	2%
Nichole Canuso Dance Company	$120,950	4	25%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	$120,000	2	0%
University City Science Center	$120,000	1	1%
Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble	$109,000	2	22%
Philadelphia City Fund Inc	$99,600	3	0%
Piffaro the Renaissance Band	$99,000	1	21%
The Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation	$97,200	3	12%
Journey Arts	$96,720	3	26%
Karmalux LLC	$90,000	1	n/a
University City Arts League Inc	$85,032	1	17%
Vox Populi Inc	$76,500	1	22%
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia	$72,000	3	n/a
Tiny Dynamite Inc	$72,000	2	n/a
Independence Seaport Museum	$72,000	2	1%
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia	$72,000	1	n/a
Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Inc	$72,000	2	n/a
Philadelphia Dance Projects	$72,000	1	56%
Zoological Society of Philadelphia	$72,000	2	0%
Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Philadelphia Inc	$72,000	2	n/a
Painted Bride Art Center Inc	$67,890	2	6%
Seventh Ward Projects Inc	$60,000	1	n/a
Nueva Esperanza Inc	$55,049	1	0%
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia	$48,000	1	4%
Moore College of Art and Design	$44,027	2	0%
Kyl Dancers Inc	$40,716	2	16%
Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation	$36,000	1	1%
Emily Bate	$31,250	1	n/a
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society	$20,000	1	1%
Balletx	$10,000	1	0%
Common Field	$10,000	1	2%
Wharton Esherick Museum	$8,500	1	2%
Sruti the Indian Music & Dance Company	$7,200	1	10%
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia	$7,200	1	1%
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends	$7,200	1	n/a
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance	$5,000	1	0%
The Bearded Ladies Cabaret	$4,000	1	n/a
Creative Capacity LLC	$2,500	1	n/a
The Academy of Vocal Arts	$630	1	0%

The University of the Arts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 105.

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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 Philadelphia Cultural Fund IncPA131.9× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Wyncote Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Pennsylvania Humanities Council · John S and James L Knight Foundation

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.

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About The University of the Arts

How much does The University of the Arts give?: The University of the Arts reported 65 itemized grants totaling $9,454,090, out of $43,014,289 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The University of the Arts fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Education (4%), Environment (2%).
Who are The University of the Arts's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($1.8M), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($1.5M), The Barnes Foundation ($1.4M).
Does The University of the Arts fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The University of the Arts?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc, The William Penn Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Where is The University of the Arts based?: The University of the Arts is based in PA.