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Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Co Herrick Feinstein LLP
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of BARBARA BELL CUMMING CHARITABLE TRUST CO HERRICK FEINSTEIN LLP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TILLES CENTER | $27,500 |
| KAUFMAN CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE CLUBBED THUMB | $15,000 |
| BUILDING FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE | $10,000 |
| KRAVIS CENTER | $7,500 |
| ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY | $7,500 |
| NEW DRAMATICS INC | $6,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY | $5,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS | $5,000 |
| EXPLORING THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| PROSPECT THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| THE JOYCE THEATER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
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
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC7× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +35%
- CTClubbed Thumb Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +165%
- AMAMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -82%
- TGTEATRO GRATTACIELO INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +309%
- MTMCC THEATREone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
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…
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…
As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…
Develop recognition of international theater
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
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,…
Please see schedule o for the complete mission statement.berkeley repertory theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and…
Producing & developing American plays.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble Inc Dba Ma-Yi Theater Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 57 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 MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Clubbed Thumb Inc ↗
- Who funds New DramatistsInc ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORING THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLEA THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds TEATRO GRATTACIELO INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TARGET MARGIN THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER ET AL INC DBA THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE 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: Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Tow 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 Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Co Herrick Feinstein LLP 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.
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% 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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