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.

The University of the Arts

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· Public charity

The University of the Arts

The arts have the power to transform society.

$43M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$534k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2023 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 65 grants below total $9,454,090, the rows itemized in this filing. The $43,014,289 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,560,199 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k9 grants · $338k
$50k–250k46 grants · $5.6M
$250k+9 grants · $3.5M

$120,000

Median grant

States reached

$189M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	$534,400
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY	$500,090
FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM	$479,640
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY	$375,000
BLACKSTAR PROJECTS	$348,651
PEOPLE'S LIGHT AND THEATRE COMPANY	$343,400
MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS	$329,944
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES	$297,300
THE BARNES FOUNDATION	$268,000
PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY	$248,681
THE CROSSING	$223,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION	$192,000
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS SERIES	$181,500
PHILADELPHIA FRINGEARTS	$180,000
OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA	$171,050

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$47M · 98 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

98 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2023, 44 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$47M

$541k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+59%

Still filing today

93%

75%

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 ServicesEnvironmentEmploymentCommunity 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

TU
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +5%
PM
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
6× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +14%
TB
THE BARNES FOUNDATION
5× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +47%

Funded once

KL
KUN-YANG LINDANCERS
one grant, 2018 · $180k
PT
PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BANDgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $99k · revenue +67%
CA
CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $72k · revenue +59%

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.

Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

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Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture

The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…

Arts & Culture

Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education

Chamber Music Pittsburgh

To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.

Arts & Culture

Theatre Philadelphia

Theatre philadelphia is a leadership organization that celebrates and promotes professional theatre in the greater philadelphia region, primarily via the barrymore awards for excellence in theatre.

Arts & Culture

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

Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia Art Alliance

The alliance is dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of innovative contemporary craft and to inspiring dynamic interactions between audiences and artists in a setting of historic and aesthetic significance.

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Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Contemporary; the most unlike its peers is Moore College of Art and Design. 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

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 126 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/112

Grantees still filing

80/112

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$29,042,604Education$11,365,341Other$7,156,604Human Services$1,630,054Employment$1,342,819Environment$1,164,702Science & Tech$486,024

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The University of the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The University of the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home