· Public charity
American Theatre Wing Inc
American theatre wing invests in brave work, supports creative growth, and celebrates excellence to bring inclusive stories to our national culture through theatre.
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.
The 33 grants below total $814,816 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,053,719 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $238,903 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIXED BLOOD THEATRE COMPANY | $75,000 |
| THEATRESQUARED INC | $75,000 |
| CAMDEN REPERTORY THEATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP | $75,000 |
| LATINO THEATER COMPANY | $75,000 |
| CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC | $75,000 |
| COUNTY OF KAY PONCA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| JACKSON-MADISON COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM | $40,000 |
| THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY FLORIDA | $37,937 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $35,610 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $34,192 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $17,700 |
| HOPEWELL HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE BOOSTERS | $17,104 |
| DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,901 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $14,135 |
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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 +18% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 18 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $564k 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
- NYNew York University4× · 2021–2024 · $104k · revenue +30%
Northwestern University5× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +33%- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC4× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CLCOVINGTON LOUISIANA ACTORS PLAYHOUSE SYSTEMone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -35% · 41% of their budget
- LHLA HABRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $35k
- EREagle Rock Elementary Education Foundationone grant, 2018 · $32k · 38% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Stage Associates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covington Louisiana Actors Playhouse System. 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 29 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 142 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 New York University ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
- Who funds Mixed Blood Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LOUISIANA ACTORS PLAYHOUSE SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Eagle Rock Elementary Education Foundation (EREEF) ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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: The Shubert Foundation Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Good Sports Inc · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · Save the Music Foundation · I Car Education 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 American Theatre Wing Inc 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Charter School of New Castle — 5% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson College — 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.