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The Willem de Kooning Foundation at a glance

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The Willem de Kooning Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$502k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$5.8MInternational$250kEducation$175kFood & Nutrition$150kYouth Development$110kHuman Services$75kHealth$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $402k
$51,930
Median grant
3
States reached
$74M
Total assets

Largely a single collection: about 91% of reported assets are Willem De Kooning Artwork.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BROOKLYN RAIL$100,000
SWISS INSTITUTE$100,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC$75,000
J PAUL GETTY TRUST$75,000
THE ARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INC$51,930
ARTADIA (ART COUNCIL INC)$40,000
PUBLICOLOR INC$25,000
STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$25,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $75k → 7%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $50k → 7%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $50k → 7%ALL FOR THE EAST END INC: $50k → 7%THE RETREAT: $50k → 7%THE RETREAT: $25k → 7%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 16 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$5.6M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
-2%

Still filing today

94%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • SI
    SWISS INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +82%
  • United States Artists Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
  • NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $697k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • PI
    PARTICIPANT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $320k · revenue +394% · 91% of their budget
  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -2%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE FOR UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
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.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
Nassau County Museum of Art

The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…

Arts & Culture
4
The Parrish Art Museum Inc

The museum encourages an appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education, and public programs for diverse audiences.inspired by the natural setting and historical artistic community of long island's east end, the…

Arts & Culture
5
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Artists in Residence Inc

Support an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. as an artist-run organization, artists in residence fosters involvement through multiple tiers of representation:…

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8
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
9
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
12
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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

28 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. 28 of the 33 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWISS INSTITUTE: $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureSWISS INSTITUTEUnited States Artists Inc: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists IncFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $750,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INCNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $697,100 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $559,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INCARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INC: $439,344 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INCPARTICIPANT INC: $320,000 · Arts & CulturePARTICIPANT INCINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC+3 more: $260,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE FOR UKRAINE: $250,000 · OtherINTERNATION…INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC: $105,000 · OtherINTERNATION…ARTADIA (ART COUNCIL INC): $80,000 · OtherARTADIA (AR…STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 · OtherSTUDIO IN A…LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (AFTEE): $50,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND…EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $50,000 · OtherEAST HAMPTO…SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT EMS: $25,000 · OtherEAST HAMPTON VILLAGE AMBULANCE INC ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherNYFAC FOUNDATION - HAN ARTIST RELIEF FUND: $25,000 · OtherEAST HAMPTON MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesRetreat Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR THE EAST END INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $100,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INC: $100,000 · EducationARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $80,000 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $75,000 · PhilanthropySPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$5,575,944Other$730,000Human Services$300,000Education$200,000Philanthropy$155,000Food & Nutrition$125,000Health$50,000

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 budgetSWISS INSTITUTE: $1,200,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $1,050,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $750,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $697,100 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $559,500 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INC: $439,344 over 6y, 54% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC: $320,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $300,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $175,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $150,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC: $105,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $80,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRetreat Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALL FOR THE EAST END INC: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON VILLAGE AMBULANCE INC ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEAST HAMPTON MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ANNA MIRABAI LYTTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundKate Cassidy Foundati…The Donald and Barbar…The New York Communit…The Jct FoundationThe Reba Judith Sandl…J & Ar FoundationThe Hilaria and Alec …Andrew Sabin Family F…Helen Frankenthaler F…The Andy Warhol Found…The Maryam and Hervey…
Jewish Communal FundNY21.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Kate Cassidy Foundation · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Jct Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · J & Ar Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Maryam and Hervey Seley 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 Willem de Kooning Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Willem de Kooning Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Willem de Kooning Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Willem de Kooning Foundation 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 33 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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