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Wayne Thiebaud 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.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$19MEnvironment$4.5MPhilanthropy$40kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$2kCivil Rights$2k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+4 grants · $5.6M
$900,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$280M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAN SHREM AND MARIA MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM OF ART UC DAVIS$2,422,700
FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$2,000,000
BEYELER MUSEUM AG$900,000
FINE ART MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$250,000
SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CROCKER ART MUSEUM$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $1k → 17%THE OXBOW SCHOOL: $1k → 9%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $1.4M → 10%OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $1k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $2.0M → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $1k → 12%CATAMARAN LITERARY READER: $1k → 13%LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION: $4.5M → 14%MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $10k → 16%SOFT POWER HEALTH: $1k → 9%THE BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY DBA ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY: $1k → 13%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $50k → 10%FINE ART MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1.2M → 10%PENCE GALLERY: $5k → 16%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $41k → 10%FINE ART MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%CROCKER ART MUSEUM: $4.5M → 12%PENCE GALLERY: $2k → 16%PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY: $1.9M → 17%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $25k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $80k → 10%CROCKER ART MUSEUM: $569k → 12%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $350k → 10%CROCKER ART MUSEUM: $50k → 12%LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN: $5k → 10%CROCKER ART MUSEUM: $43k → 12%CROCKER ART MUSEUM: $20k → 12%JAN SHREM AND MARIA MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM OF ART UC DAVIS: $2.4M → 16%CROCKER ART MUSEUM: $10k → 12%UC DAVIS - LECTURE IN THE THEORY PRACTICE AND CRITICISM OF PAINTING DRAWI: $2.3M → 16%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: $3k → 17%UC DAVIS - LECTURE IN THE THEORY PRACTICE AND CRITICISM OF PAINTING DRAWI: $500k → 16%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: $3k → 17%ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY: $4k → 12%UC DAVIS: $50k → 16%SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - FRED BALL MEMORIAL FUND: $10k → 12%UC DAVIS - SHREM MUSEUM OF ART FUND: $25k → 16%SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - FRED BALL MEMORIAL FUND: $10k → 12%UC DAVIS - SHREM MUSEUM OF ART FUND: $25k → 16%SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - FRED BALL MEMORIAL FUND: $10k → 12%UC DAVIS - SHREM MUSEUM OF ART FUND: $25k → 16%SACRAMENTO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 12%SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%KVIE: $3k → 12%KVIE: $3k → 12%NATHANIAL S COLLEY SR CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION: $2k → 12%SACRAMENTO BEE ART DIVISION: $3k → 12%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.

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.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 17 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
25

Total granted

$13M
$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+27%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
    2× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +6%
  • LA
    LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +46% · 57% of their budget
  • PA
    PENCE ART GALLERY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • LD
    LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $4.5M · revenue -100%
  • TP
    The Pierpont Morgan Librarygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.9M · revenue +53%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +14%

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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
3
Art Explorium
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4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
7
International Academy of Fine Art

The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).

International
8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
9
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
12
Fisher Art Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laguna Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Nathaniel S Colley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%67%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
12%
8,155/66,390

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 45 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION — $4,500,000 · OtherLEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATIONUC DAVIS - LECTURE IN THE THEORY PRACTICE AND CRITICISM OF PAINTING DRAWI — $2,760,000 · OtherUC DAVIS - LECTURE IN THE THEORY PRACTICE AND CRITICISM OF …JAN SHREM AND MARIA MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM OF ART UC DAVIS — $2,422,700 · OtherJAN SHREM AND MARIA MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM OF ART UC DAVISFINE ART MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,425,000 · OtherFINE ART MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCOBEYELER MUSEUM AG — $900,000 · OtherBEYELER MUSEUM AG+17 more — $175,000 · OtherCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $5,191,570 · Arts & CultureCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $2,080,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMSLAGUNA ART MUSEUM — $1,580,125 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA ART MUSEUMSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $350,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $28,150 · Arts & CultureThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $1,910,000 · EducationThe Pierp…+5 more — $10,000 · EducationSacramento Region Community Foundation — $40,000 · Philanthropy
Other$12,182,700Arts & Culture$9,229,845Education$1,920,000Philanthropy$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $5,191,570 over 6y, 30% of budgetLEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION — $4,500,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $2,080,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $1,910,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM — $1,580,125 over 5y, 57% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $350,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSacramento Region Community Foundation — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENCE ART GALLERY — $9,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetKVIE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHREEPENNY REVIEW — $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATAMARAN LITERARY READER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRABHORN INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCartoon Art Museum of California — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetODC THEATER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Orange County Communi…Ibm International Fou…The San Francisco Fou…The Franklin K & Sand…The Andy Warhol Found…The James Irvine Foun…ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
Orange County Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Franklin K & Sandra K Yee Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Wayne Thiebaud 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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