· Private foundation
Charlotte Cushman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EgoPo Classic Theater | $3,500 |
| Lantern Theatre Company | $3,500 |
| Philadelphia Young Playwrights | $3,250 |
| Plays and Players | $3,000 |
| The Producer Hub Inc | $3,000 |
| Bearded Ladies Cabaret | $3,000 |
| Shakespeare in Clark Park | $3,000 |
| Quintessence Theatre Group | $3,000 |
| Inis Nua Theatre Company | $3,000 |
| 1812 Productions | $2,500 |
| Bristol Riverside Theatre | $2,500 |
| People's Light | $2,000 |
| Theatre Horizon | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Theatre Ariel | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
FRACTURED ATLAS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +71%- 1P1812 PRODUCTIONS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +37%
- QTQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +241%
Funded once
- PIPig Iron Theatre Coone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- NHNeighborhood House Arts Programone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Develop recognition of international theater
The mission of theo ubique theater company is to engage actors and audiences in an intimate and honest conversation with great theatrical works, including musicals, reviews, and dramas.in a cabatet setting with food service available.
Theatrical productions using Philadelphia motif
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lantern Theater Company and the most unlike its peers is Shakespeare in Clark Park. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 63 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 SHAKESPEARE IN CLARK PARK ↗
- Who funds THEATRE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds 1812 PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds QUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYPENN INC ↗
- Who funds TINY DYNAMITE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE EXILE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AZUKA THEATRE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds INIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds IDIOPATHIC RIDICULOPATHY CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LANTERN THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PLAYS AND PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS ↗
- Who funds BEARDED LADIES CABARET ↗
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: Wyncote Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Independence Foundation · The Lida Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Sylvia W and Randle M Kauders Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · June & Steve Wolfson Family Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main
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 Charlotte Cushman 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.
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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