· Private foundation
Von Rydingsvard and Greengard Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $20,000 |
| STORM KING ART CENTER | $20,000 |
| HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART FUND | $20,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT | $20,000 |
| MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $135k · revenue +39%- SISTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +92%
- UNUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- JPJUDY PFAFF FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +586% · 100% of their budget
- SMSHELDON MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $20k
- MCMOORE COLLEGE OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
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)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
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.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Judy Pfaff Foundation 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Land With No Name Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds JUDY PFAFF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds OXBOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Fabric Workshop and Museum ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Von Rydingsvard and Greengard Foundation 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
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.
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