Grants for arts education nonprofits

Name: Top 25 grants made to arts education organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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1,273 arts education organizations received at least $10.3 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,907 grants made from 1,400 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,000. Of these 1,400 foundations, 82% made just a single grant to art schools, and 3% made grants to four or more art schools. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$10,285,929

Total grant dollars given to arts education nonprofits

1,907

Number of grants made annually to arts education nonprofits

1,400

Number of grantmakers funding arts education nonprofits

$2,000

Median grant size to arts education nonprofits

Foundations that support arts education organizations

Out of all grants made to arts education nonprofits, 75% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 60% of the dollar-value of grants to art schools. Foundations funding art schools also made grants to educational service providers, multiservice human service organizations, theaters, youth development programs, and animal shelters.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	1,056
Medium	197
Large	147

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	36
Private	1,224
Corporate	63
Other	77

Grants made

Grants made to art schools	Number of grantmakers
1	1,159
2-3	196
4-10	38
11+	7

Top 10 foundations supporting arts education organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to art schools	Number of grants made to art schools	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	24	$1,000
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.1%	20	$3,662
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.1%	20	$1,911
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	18	$510
Arkansas Community Foundation	AR	State	0.0%	14	$1,000
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	11	$100
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.1%	11	$250
Community Foundation of North Central Wi	WI	Metro	0.4%	10	$1,250
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.0%	9	$130
Charity Partners Foundation	MA	National	0.3%	9	$49

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Arts education organizations grantees

Arts education nonprofits with more than $5 million in total revenues received 8% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 18% of all art schools.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	1,905
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	2

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,425
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$2,000
>$5M	$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	337
California	197
Florida	98
Massachusetts	90
Other	1,185

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	300
Los Angeles	83
San Francisco	70
Boston	68
Other	1,135

Top 25 grants made to arts education nonprofits

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Memphis Music Initiative	$3,350,000	General Operational Support	Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
Crosstown Arts	$2,614,549	Program Support	Christian Community Foundation of Memphis and the Mid-South
Creative Growth Art Center	$5,000	2015 Discretionary Grant	Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Creative Growth Art Center	$5,000	2015 Discretionary Grant	Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Wide Rainbow Corporation	$5,000	General	CM Bass Foundation
Art Sparks	$5,000	Arts and Humanities	The Columbus Foundation
The Ohio Art League	$5,000	Arts and Humanities	The Columbus Foundation
Carnegie Hall	$5,000	Arts and Humanities	The Columbus Foundation
Millersburg Area Art Association	$5,000	Grant	Harold N and Thelma G Lenker Millersburg Community Trust
New Mexico School for the Arts Art Institute (NMSA)	$5,000	General Donation	The Sulica Fund
The Society of The Four Arts	$5,000	Unrestricted	Walden Trust
Kauai Academy of Creative Arts	$5,000	Scholarships	Smith Foundation
Inner-City Arts	$5,000	Funding Music and Arts Programs	Peter and Masha Plotkin Memorial Foundation
Anderson Ranch Arts Center	$5,000	General Program	Alchemy Charitable Foundation
Young Audiences New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania	$5,000	For Programming in Trenton Schools	Geraldine R Dodge Foundation
Arts Horizons	$5,000	For Project Support To Continue the Creation of An Online Arts Education Professional Development Learning Tool for Teachers and Teaching Artists, With A Focus This Year on Dance	Geraldine R Dodge Foundation
Locust Projects	$5,000	General Purpose	The Kirk Foundation
Teach - To Educate All Children	$5,000	Support Non-Profit Educational Org	Texas Children's Hospital (TCS)
Artists for Humanity	$5,000	Charitable Gift	The Episode Foundation
Fractured Atlas	$5,000	To Empowers Artists, Arts Organizations, and Other Cultural Sector Stakeholders By Eliminating Practical Barriers To Artistic Expression, So As To Foster A More Agile and Resilient Cultural Ecosystem.	Richard Shaklee Memorial Foundation
Free Arts Nyc	$5,000	General Operating Support	J M Kaplan Fund
Radius Books	$5,000	For the Book: Debi Cornwall: Necessary Fictions	J M Kaplan Fund
The Dreamyard Project	$5,000	General Operating Support	J M Kaplan Fund
Fractured Atlas	$5,000	To Support the Organization	The Victor Herbert Foundation
National Black Arts Festival	$5,000	Provide General Operating Support	Annie E Casey Foundation (AECF)

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Arts education nonprofits" category for this page is determined by the "A25: Arts Education, Schools of Art" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.