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Wyeth Foundation for American Art
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k23 grants · $594k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $468k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART | $1,714,964 |
| FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | $140,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $127,800 |
| HAHS- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $100,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION | $46,995 |
| THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP | $40,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $30,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LONGWOOD GARDENS INC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| AMERICAS SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE WEST | $25,000 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k 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
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art6× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +144%
The President and Trustees of Colby College3× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +22%- TWTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $740k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SMSHELBURNE MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +161%
- GRGeorges River Land Trustone grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -8%
- SNSMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIANone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
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).
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The arnot art museum is an exhibiting and collecting fine arts museum, accredited by the american association of museums. the museum exhibits its permanent collection of 17th-19th century european paintings and sculpture; 19th century…
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…
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens 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 71 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 114 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 Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Georges River Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOC OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds HERRING GUT LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 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: Terra Foundation for American Art · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Greater Hudson Heritage Network · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Ann and Arthur Grey Foundation · The Coby Foundation Ltd · Milton and Sally Avery Arts 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 Wyeth Foundation for American Art 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.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% 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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