· Private foundation
Billy Rose Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $529k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of Israel Museum | $100,000 |
| University of Santa Barbara Foundation | $50,000 |
| National Dance Institute | $50,000 |
| Dancing Dream | $50,000 |
| American Composers Forum | $46,000 |
| Arlekin Player Theatre | $40,000 |
| NYU Langone Hassenfield Children's Hospital | $30,000 |
| Fordham University | $30,000 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson Unity Walk | $30,000 |
| Loyola School | $30,000 |
| International Pre-Schools | $25,000 |
| Mark Morris Dance Group | $25,000 |
| The School of American Ballet | $25,000 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | $25,000 |
| The Frick Collection | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 11 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $720k · revenue +67%
- DDDANCING DREAMS6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +35%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +250%
Funded once
- NDNYU DANCERS WITH DISABILITIESone grant, 2021 · $50k
- NLNYU Lanngone Hassenfield Childrens Hospitone grant, 2024 · $30k
- HCHOLY CITY ARTS & LYRIC OPERAone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -46%
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.
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DANCING DREAMS ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds IN SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSONS UNITY WALK INC ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds International Preschools ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Code of Support Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORATORIO SOCIETY OF QUEENS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Billy Rose Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Billy Rose Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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