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Axe-Houghton Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k42 grants · $332k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DE LA SALLE ACADEMY | $14,000 |
| JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER | $13,000 |
| JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER | $13,000 |
| STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC | $12,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC | $11,000 |
| RED BULL THEATER INC | $10,000 |
| SYMPHONY SPACE INC | $10,000 |
| CSC REPERTORY LTD | $10,000 |
| EPIC THEATRE CENTER INC | $9,500 |
| IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC | $9,500 |
| GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE | $9,500 |
| NATIONAL ASIAN-AMERICAN THEATRE COMPANY | $9,500 |
| PREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC | $9,000 |
| NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP INCORPORATED | $9,000 |
| URBAN WORD NYC INC | $9,000 |
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2026, 29 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- JRJUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER INC10× · 2017–2026 · $184k · revenue +45%
- DLDE LA SALLE ACADEMY10× · 2017–2026 · $109k · revenue +19%
- NYNEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC10× · 2017–2026 · $104k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- MFMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -9%
- PTPEARL THEATRE CO INCone grant, 2017 · $6k
- TSTHE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -24%
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.
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
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…
Titan theatre company is committed to breathing new life and clarity into classical works of theatre, exploring new and contemporary language plays, and delivering adventurous and visceral theatrical experiences for our audiences and…
Develop recognition of international theater
To facilitate the creation and development of theatrical works through readings, workshops and work in progress presentations.
Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies
Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.
The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.
Producing & developing American plays.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Theatre Workshop Inc and the most unlike its peers is Candid. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 94 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 JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds EPIC THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds RED BULL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds New DramatistsInc ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds URBAN WORD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds National Asian American Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GROUP I ACTING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE SEVENTY-THREE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Civilians Inc ↗
- Who funds Clubbed Thumb Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORKING THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Theater Labrador Inc dba New Georges ↗
- Who funds Irondale Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc ↗
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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · Richenthal Foundation · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc
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 Axe-Houghton Foundation 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.
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% 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.
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