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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,429,235 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,124,703). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$7.4M
Net assets
$335k
8/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What American Friends of the National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation Inc does

Mission

To encourage appreciation and understanding of the art of portraiture through support of the operations and activities of the national portrait gallery in london and its collaboration with american arts and academic institutions.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grants to the national portrait gallery of london for acquisitions of art, displays, education, conservation and research.

    $1,275,001 spentof which $1,271,411 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,275,001.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($346k) Expenses 100 ($385k) Net assets 100 ($320k)2018 Revenue 184 ($637k) Expenses 140 ($540k) Net assets 130 ($417k)2019 Revenue 151 ($524k) Expenses 69 ($264k) Net assets 211 ($677k)2020 Revenue 389 ($1.3M) Expenses 131 ($505k) Net assets 474 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 948 ($3.3M) Expenses 898 ($3.5M) Net assets 419 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 1531 ($5.3M) Expenses 1391 ($5.4M) Net assets 402 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 1326 ($4.6M) Expenses 1214 ($4.7M) Net assets 377 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 915 ($3.2M) Expenses 1083 ($4.2M) Net assets 65 ($208k)2025 Revenue 417 ($1.4M) Expenses 342 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($335k)
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Revenue (417)Expenses (342)Net assets (105)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $208k (−83%).

$320k
$417k
$677k
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$208k
$335k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’17
$97k
’18
$260k
’19
$842k
’20
−$175k
’21
−$55k
’22
−$80k
’23
−$1.0M
’24
$127k
’25
1.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed798878889
Joined·+2+0+1+0+2+0+0+1
No longer listed·01111000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $65k → $3.9M.

9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC.

69%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 77% · 2019 53% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 66% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

43% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

71% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.1M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states.

NY
PA
NJ
CA
DE
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,429,235 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,124,703). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $7,429,235 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,124,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON) FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing