· Private foundation
Burry Fredrik Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTFORD STAGE | $102,695 |
| GOODSPEED MUSICALS | $82,147 |
| THEATER WORKS | $51,375 |
| THE EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER | $50,000 |
| ACT OF CONNECTICUT | $30,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE THREATRE GROUP | $27,600 |
| LONG WHARF THEATRE | $26,642 |
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| YALE REPERTORY THEATRE | $20,000 |
| MUSIC THEATRE OF CONNECTICUT | $15,000 |
| LEGACY THEATRE | $9,000 |
| IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE | $8,000 |
| CAPITAL CLASSICS INC | $5,000 |
| COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| LIVE AND IN COLOR THREATER | $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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $897k · revenue +75%
- GOGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $662k · revenue +29%
- TITHEATERWORKS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $338k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- YSYALE SCHOOL OF DRAMAone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SASeven Angels Theatre Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
- CCCOLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THREATRE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.
Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…
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,…
The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…
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.
The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.
To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music Theatre of Ct Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seven Angels Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACT OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE OF CT INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Theatre Group Inc ↗
- Who funds THROWN STONE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CLASSICS INC ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Seven Angels 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: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · John and Kelly Hartman Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Carol L Sirot Foundation · Jana Foundation Inc · Louis F & Mary a Tagliatela Family Foundation · Perakis Foundation James Perakis Trustee
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 Burry Fredrik Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Thrown Stone Theatre Company — 13% of income from government
- Capital Classics Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% 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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