Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Charlotte Cushman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $46k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $279k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Charlotte Cushman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $46k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $46k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $34k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $23k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $31k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $77k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $78k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare in Clark Park | $20,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Theatre Philadelphia | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $17,950 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of the Arts | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| 1812 Productions Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Quintessence Theatre Group Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Theatre Horizon Inc | $14,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Playpenn Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Theatre Exile Company | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tiny Dynamite Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare in Clark Park | $20,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Theatre Philadelphia | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $17,950 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of the Arts | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| 1812 Productions Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Quintessence Theatre Group Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Theatre Horizon Inc | $14,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Playpenn Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Theatre Exile Company | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tiny Dynamite Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Philadelphia Artists Collective Incorporated | $9,420 | 4 | 3% |
| Azuka Theatre Collective | $9,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Bristol Riverside Theatre Co Inc | $8,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Inis Nua Theatre Company | $7,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The People's Light & Theatre Company | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lantern Theater Company | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Plays and Players | $4,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Philadelphia Young Playwrights | $3,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Bearded Ladies Cabaret | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Theatre Ariel | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hedgerow Theatre Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Antigravity Performance Project | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Journey Arts | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Beacon Theatre Productions | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Longfellow Chorus | $100 | 1 | 14% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charlotte Cushman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Charlotte Cushman Foundation
- How much does Charlotte Cushman Foundation give?
- Charlotte Cushman Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $45,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Charlotte Cushman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Health (2%), Philanthropy (1%).
- Who are Charlotte Cushman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Shakespeare in Clark Park ($21k), Theatre Philadelphia ($20k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($18k).
- Does Charlotte Cushman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charlotte Cushman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charlotte Cushman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyncote Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc.
- Where is Charlotte Cushman Foundation based?
- Charlotte Cushman Foundation is based in PA.
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