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David S Shrager Foundation at a glance

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David S Shrager Foundation

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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$464kReligion$102kPhilanthropy$20kEducation$11kCommunity Improvement$8kHealth$5kCivil Rights$200Recreation & Sports$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$66,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIGNATURE THEATRE$66,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $102) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $50 → 14%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $52 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$593k · 13 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$593k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST
    SIGNATURE THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +61%
  • SA
    SITAR ARTS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +73%
  • MT
    MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +35%
  • GD
    GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -28%
  • PM
    Potomac Massage Training Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +138%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
2
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Theatre Company

Philadelphia theatre company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
9
The National Theatre Foundation

The national theatre foundation oversees and preserves one of america's most iconic theatres toward an innovative and inclusive future. while serving as the primary home for broadway in our nation's capital, the foundation also presents…

Arts & Culture
10
Apollo Theater Foundation Inc

The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global…

Arts & Culture
11
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
12
Signature Theatre Company Inc

Signature theatre celebrates playwrights and gives them an artistic home. signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright's body of work, producing several plays by each resident writer and delivering an intimate and immersive…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatrewashington; the most unlike its peers is Potomac Massage Training Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $231,900 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE INCSITAR ARTS CENTER: $180,000 · Arts & CultureSITAR ARTS CENTERMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC+10 more: $4,798 · Arts & CultureTEMPLE RODEF SHALOM: $101,708 · OtherTEMPLE RODEF SHALOMTHEATREWASHINGTON: $11,500 · OtherTHEATREWASHINGTON+9 more: $1,158 · OtherSPUR LOCAL INC: $28,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $55 · PhilanthropyGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,400 · EducationGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationAppellate Project Inc: $613 · EducationPotomac Massage Training Institute: $4,500 · HealthNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $150 · Civil RightsARLINGTON THRIVE: $52 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $50 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $53 · International
Arts & Culture$451,698Other$114,366Philanthropy$28,055Education$11,013Health$4,500Civil Rights$150Human Services$102International$53

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $231,900 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $180,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR LOCAL INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATREWASHINGTON: $11,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPotomac Massage Training Institute: $4,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $2,720 over 3y, 0.0% of budget1ST STAGE INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAppellate Project Inc: $613 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN THE ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZIMS FOUNDATION INC: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON THRIVE: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $28 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS IGNITE INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Weissberg FoundationDimick Foundation Joh…The Shubert Foundatio…Dallas Morse Coors Fo…The Shiloh FoundationThe Robert P and Arle…Galena-Yorktown Found…Clark-Winchcole Found…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…Seattle Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · The Shiloh Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David S Shrager Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David S Shrager Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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