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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$5.2MPhilanthropy$200kEducation$94kPublic Benefit$90kReligion$85kHousing & Shelter$85kYouth Development$75kAnimals$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $570,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $770,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $200,000 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.
$75,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON$100,000
BLACK CUBE$85,000
PERFORMA INC$75,000
MOMA PS1$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
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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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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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

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. 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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Via Art Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Via Art Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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%
+19%

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

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Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • 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%
  • CANDID
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -5%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +125%
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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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artists Space Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

97 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. 97 of the 99 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
97/97
Grantees still filing
62/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $75,000 · OtherHEART OF …PROJECT EATS INC: $73,147 · OtherPROJECT E…+2 more: $30,000 · Other+2 moreMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $120,000 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $50,000 · EnvironmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentFuture West Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentCANDID: $100,000 · PhilanthropyEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN INST OF ARTS & SCIENCES TRUST: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $75,000 · Human ServicesSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$4,449,250Education$402,750Other$478,147Environment$245,000Philanthropy$220,000Human Services$75,000Community Improvement$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $125,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BRICK: $104,250 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCANDID: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetLOCUST PROJECTS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMONUMENT LAB INC: $85,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $75,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $75,000 over 2y, 3.9% 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 budgetBOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetBURNAWAY INC: $54,250 over 2y, 20% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $54,250 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCOLEMAN CENTER BOARD OF THE CITY OF YORK TERM: $54,250 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetMIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART: $54,250 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetPUBLIC SPACE ONE: $54,250 over 2y, 26% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $54,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $45,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget516 Arts: $40,000 over 1y, 7.5% 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.

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

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 Via Art Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Via Art Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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.

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 99 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 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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where grant money is based, and what stays home