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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.6MEducation$905k
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $814,816, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,053,719 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $238,903 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $403k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
$10,608
Median grant
19
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIXED BLOOD THEATRE COMPANY$75,000
THEATRESQUARED INC$75,000
CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC$75,000
LATINO THEATER COMPANY$75,000
CAMDEN REPERTORY THEATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP$75,000
JACKSON-MADISON COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM$40,000
COUNTY OF KAY PONCA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW CASTLE: $20k → 10%MIXED BLOOD THEATRE COMPANY: $75k → 11%SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL: $27k → 10%SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $25k → 11%LATINO THEATER COMPANY: $75k → 14%HISPANIC FEDERATIONINC: $30k → 13%SOUTHWEST ISD: $27k → 16%HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $50k → 16%HAGERMAN MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS: $20k → 20%COUNTY OF KAY PONCA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN SUMMER THEATRE INSTITUTE LLC: $25k → 10%THEATRESQUARED INC: $75k → 14%SCHOOL BOARD OF OKALOOSA COUNTY: $22k → 9%THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY FLORIDA: $38k → 15%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $36k → 14%JACKSON-MADISON COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $40k → 15%CABARRUS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $30k → 15%DALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $23k → 13%LAKE RIDGE NEW TECH SCHOOLS: $20k → 15%DESOTO COUNTY SCHOOLS: $21k → 10%WEST NEW YORK BOARD OF EDUCATION: $20k → 10%CAMDEN REPERTORY THEATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $75k → 12%CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $22k → 13%JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $25k → 15%CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $75k → 19%LA HABRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $35k → 10%PTA CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: $25k → 10%WATERSIDE PS317Q PTO INC: $22k → 13%HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $35k → 14%CABARRUS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $20k → 15%GUILFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $25k → 16%CAMDEN CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $25k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $35k → 16%GUILFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $25k → 16%HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $25k → 16%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $29k → 14%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $29k → 16%CITY OF NEW YORK - NEW YORK CI: $32k → 17%NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $22k → 17%EAGLE ROCK ELEMENTARY EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA EREEF: $32k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $34k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
CO
NE
MO
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AR
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NC
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DC
OK
LA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 36 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
86

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+18%

Still filing today

53%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $564k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NY
    New York University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $104k · revenue +30%
  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +33%
  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CL
    COVINGTON LOUISIANA ACTORS PLAYHOUSE SYSTEM
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -35% · 41% of their budget
  • LH
    LA HABRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • ER
    Eagle Rock Elementary Education Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · 38% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc

Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…

Arts & Culture
2
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
3
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
4
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
5
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
6
Atlantic Theater Company

At Atlantic, our aim is singular: to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. Across our work, we are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show…

Arts & Culture
7
Central Square Theater Inc

Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…

Arts & Culture
8
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…

Arts & Culture
9
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture
10
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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11
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
12
Su Theatre Corporation D/B/a Syracuse Stage

Syracuse stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experiences.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Stage Associates Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
49/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Houston Independent Sch Dist: $149,676 · OtherHouston Independent Sch DistREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $101,060 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $100,000 · OtherMixed Blood Theatre Company: $75,000 · OtherCAMDEN REPERTORY THEATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $75,000 · Other+72 more: $1,533,379 · Other+72 moreNew York University: $104,192 · EducationNew York UniversityBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $64,820 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUS…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN…THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYEMERSON COLLEGE: $36,265 · EducationColumbia College Chicago: $35,050 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationFordham University: $30,000 · EducationBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $28,898 · Education+18 more: $225,803 · Education+18 moreLATINO THEATER COMPANY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO THEATER COMP…CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCI…THEATRE SQUARED INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE SQUARED INCCOVINGTON LOUISIANA ACTORS PLAYHOUSE SYSTEM: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCOVINGTON LOUISIANA…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMATIC ART INC: $26,666 · Arts & Culture+27 more: $284,567 · Arts & Culture+27 moreNorthwestern University: $84,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC: $25,000 · InternationalGilloury Institute: $10,000 · InternationalHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,034,115Education$685,028Arts & Culture$601,233Recreation & Sports$84,000International$35,000Community Improvement$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $104,192 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $84,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO THEATER COMPANY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMixed Blood Theatre Company: $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHEATRE SQUARED INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $64,820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $44,484 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $36,265 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $35,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVINGTON LOUISIANA ACTORS PLAYHOUSE SYSTEM: $35,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetEagle Rock Elementary Education Foundation (EREEF): $32,109 over 1y, 38% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $28,898 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMATIC ART INC: $26,666 over 2y, 25% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $26,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPTC CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS: $25,428 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElon University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW CASTLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERLOCHEN ARTS CAMP: $19,233 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $18,784 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $15,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lit Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetINDIESPACE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYale University: $14,135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Playwrights Realm: $14,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINWOOD ACADEMY FOR LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $12,264 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORWALK CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS INC: $10,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $10,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMANITOU ART THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBLACKOUT THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThe Wilbury Theatre Group: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NOLA PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STAGE COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJEWEL THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetConstellation Stage & Screen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds LATINO THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Mixed Blood Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
  • 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 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗

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.

The Shubert Foundatio…GenYOUTH IncorporatedRound It Up America I…Project Lead the Way …Project Lead the Way …Share Our StrengthFor Inspiration and R…Good Sports IncThe Mr Holland's Opus…The George W Bush Fou…Save the Music Founda…I Car Education Found…
The Shubert Foundation IncNY50.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 0 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Theatre Wing Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Theatre Wing Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 142 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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