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Yale Art Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$153k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 15
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Yale Art Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$153k31%
FY20249$151k33%
FY202315$160k47%
FY20229$230k67%
FY202113$785kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$598kArts & Culture$470kEducation$386kPhilanthropy$135kAnimals$33kYouth Development$27kScience & Tech$25kHuman Services$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
CT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Yale Art Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $300,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $270,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPeople Fund Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHofstra University: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Ballet Company Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrenville Baker Boys and Girls Club Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDavid Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSamadi Robotics Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetArtspace Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNew Haven Promise Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMusic Haven Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMedisys Health Network Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Ballet: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Shore Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetKent School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoulder Crest Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ladd Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcupuncturists Without Borders: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTrue the Vote Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortledge School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Yale Art Trust

How much does Yale Art Trust give?
Yale Art Trust reported 13 grants totaling $152,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Yale Art Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Arts & Culture (28%), Education (23%).
Who are Yale Art Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Northwell Health Foundation ($300k), Americans for Oxford Inc ($270k), Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($150k).
Does Yale Art Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Yale Art Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Yale Art Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Yale Art Trust based?
Yale Art Trust is based in NY.

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 34 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-PF 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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