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Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

$770k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$5.2MPhilanthropy$200kEducation$94kPublic Benefit$90kReligion$85kHousing & Shelter$85kYouth Development$75kAnimals$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $570,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $770,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $200,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$75,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON$100,000
BLACK CUBE$85,000
MOMA PS1$75,000
PERFORMA INC$75,000
TINWORKS ART$75,000
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM$60,000
BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP INC$50,000
LOCUST PROJECTS INC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $75k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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OH
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
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CO
NE
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VA
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DC
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Grants abroad, by region — $80k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$80k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GRANT TO BERLIN BIENNALE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTION OF CHAW EI THEIN: ARTISTS' STREET · GRANT TO PALAIS DE TOKYO TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTION OF KAMEELAH JANAN RASHEED: OUT OF BOUNDS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Via Art Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Via Art Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 29 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
63

Total granted

$2.5M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UB
    US Biennial Inc
    3× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +106%
  • PI
    PERFORMA INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +104%
  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • C
    COUNTERPUBLICgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue +88%
  • TM
    TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +125%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
Art Explorium
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6
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
12
New Art Association
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc and the most unlike its peers is Future West Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History MuseumsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/100
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,465

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.

05the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/97
Grantees still filing
62/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

US Biennial Inc — $275,000 · Arts & CultureUS Biennial IncFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY — $235,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMA INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTERPUBLIC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+68 more — $3,439,250 · Arts & Culture+68 moreAntenna — $129,250 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $64,250 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $50,000 · EducationSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $15,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $14,250 · EducationBLACK CUBE — $85,000 · OtherBLACK CUB…SOCIETY OF KINGS CHAPEL — $85,000 · OtherSOCIETY O…UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…1708 Gallery Inc — $40,000 · Other1708 Gall…THE LAB SF — $40,000 · OtherTHE LAB S…PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY — $75,000 · OtherPHILADELP…PROJECT EATS INC — $73,147 · OtherPROJECT E…+2 more — $30,000 · Other+2 moreMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $120,000 · EnvironmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentFuture West Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN INST OF ARTS & SCIENCES TRUST — $20,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $75,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$4,449,250Education$402,750Other$478,147Environment$245,000Philanthropy$220,000Youth Development$75,000Community Improvement$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUS Biennial Inc — $275,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY — $235,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPERFORMA INC — $175,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCOUNTERPUBLIC — $175,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAntenna — $129,250 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $125,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $120,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BRICK — $104,250 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANDID — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOCUST PROJECTS INC — $90,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMONUMENT LAB INC — $85,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHED NYC INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY — $75,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT EATS INC — $73,147 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND — $65,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $64,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnchorage Museum Association — $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLEMAN CENTER BOARD OF THE CITY OF YORK TERM — $54,250 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSPACE Gallery — $54,250 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBURNAWAY INC — $54,250 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC — $54,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART — $54,250 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetPUBLIC SPACE ONE — $54,250 over 2y, 26% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X — $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE — $45,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $45,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget1708 Gallery Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budget
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.

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.

The Andy Warhol Found…The Andrew W Mellon F…Terra Foundation for …The Ford FoundationTeiger FoundationHelen Frankenthaler F…Arison Arts FoundationRobert Rauschenberg F…Ag FoundationShelley & Donald Rubi…The Cowles Charitable…The Wilhelm Family Fo…
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY110.9× affinity52 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 · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Ford Foundation · Teiger Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · Ag Foundation · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm

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 Via Art Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Boston Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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