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Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$226k
Granted FY2017
61
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k56 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE$30,000
MCC THEATRE$10,000
THE JOYCE THEATRE$10,000
MINT THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL$10,000
TEATRO GRATTACIELO$8,500
HAMPTON THEATRE COMPANY$8,000
ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER$7,500
VINEYARD THEATRE$7,000
THE PEARL THEATRE CO INC$5,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CO$5,000
CLUBBED THUMB$5,000
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS$5,000
THEATRE BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS$4,000
CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY$4,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL: $10k → 12%DANCENOWNYC: $4k → 6%HAMPTON THEATRE COMPANY: $8k → 7%RICHARD B FISHER CENTER FOR THE PER: $3k → 9%CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER: $2k → 13%THE JOYCE THEATRE: $10k → 17%THE BUSHWICK STARR: $1k → 20%THEATRE BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS: $4k → 17%BETH MORRISON PROJECTS: $3k → 20%THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE: $3k → 17%BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE: $1k → 20%ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY: $3k → 17%TARGET MARGIN THEATER: $3k → 20%COMPAGNIA DE COLOMBARI: $1k → 17%ONE YEAR LEASE THEATER COMPANY: $2k → 20%PRIMARY STAGES: $3k → 17%PAGE 73 PRODUCTIONS: $2k → 20%MA-YI THEATER COMPANY: $3k → 17%ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM: $1k → 20%PROSPECT THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 17%VINEYARD THEATRE: $7k → 17%CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $4k → 17%DANSPACE PROJECT: $3k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE: $30k → 17%NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $3k → 17%NEW GEORGES: $3k → 17%TEATRO GRATTACIELO: $9k → 17%GIBNEY DANCE CHOREOGRAPHIC CENTER: $3k → 17%SYMPHONY SPACE: $2k → 17%ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER: $8k → 17%THE PEARL THEATRE CO INC: $5k → 17%ARS NOVA: $3k → 17%ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE THEATER: $3k → 17%AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $2k → 17%THE CIVILIANS: $3k → 17%CLUBBED THUMB: $5k → 17%HERE ARTS CENTER: $3k → 17%SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $3k → 17%THE FLEA THEATER: $3k → 17%MINT THEATRE COMPANY: $10k → 17%MCC THEATRE: $10k → 17%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CO: $5k → 17%PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS: $5k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB: $3k → 17%THE NEW GROUP: $3k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATRE: $3k → 17%THE PLAY COMPANY: $2k → 17%DANCE HEGINBOTHAM: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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2
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
5
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
6
Titan Productions Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Shakespeare Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Lively Productions

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

Arts & Culture
10
The Royal National Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
12
White Horse Theater Company

Producing & developing American plays.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chelsea Opera Inc. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr22%35%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr9%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr22%37%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr9%29%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
11%
3,927/36,035

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.

03the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCTEATRO GRATTACIELO INC — $8,500 · Arts & CultureTEATRO GRATTACIELO INCHAMPTON THEATRE COMPANY INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureHAMPTON THEATRE COMPANY INCELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $7,500 · Arts & CultureELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSI…Clubbed Thumb Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more — $65,500 · Arts & Culture+32 moreLINCOLN CENTER THEATRE — $30,000 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER THEATREMCC THEATRE — $10,000 · OtherMCC THEATRETHE JOYCE THEATRE — $10,000 · OtherTHE JOYCE THEATREMINT THEATRE COMPANY — $10,000 · OtherMINT THEATRE COMPANYVINEYARD THEATRE — $7,000 · OtherVINEYARD THEATRETHE PEARL THEATRE CO INC — $5,000 · OtherCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY — $4,000 · OtherTHEATRE BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS — $4,000 · Other+14 more — $31,000 · Other+14 more
Arts & Culture$114,500Other$111,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEATRO GRATTACIELO INC — $8,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHAMPTON THEATRE COMPANY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Civilians Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTARGET MARGIN THEATER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLEA THEATER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElevator Repair Service Theater Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew DramatistsInc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOVA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABINGDON THEATRE COMPANY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TANK LTD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…Barbara Bell Cumming …The Shubert Foundatio…Axe-Houghton Foundati…The Lucille Lortel Fo…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Fan Fox and Lesli…Alliance of Resident …Booth Ferris Foundati…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundThe Macmillan Family …
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY58.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Co Herrick Feinstein LLP · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · 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 Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP?

Find your warmest path to Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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