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Distracted Globe 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$153k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$2.8MYouth Development$186kHuman Services$148kInternational$107kCrime & Legal$66kHealth$65kCivil Rights$65kReligion$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $616k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $483k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTEQUITY COMMUNITY$153,000
ZACCHO S F$120,000
SAFE SPACE PICTURES FOUNDATION$100,000
52ND STREET PROJECT INC$60,000
DEEP MEDICINE CIRCLE$50,000
ELEPHANT CIRCLE$40,500
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC$30,000
TEACH WITH AFRICA$30,000
NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY$30,000
WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE CO$30,000
POWERCORPSPHL$30,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC$20,000
LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC$20,000
PUBLIC TRUST$20,000
CLUBBED THUMB INC$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RAFT FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 14%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $500 → 16%PRODUCER HUB INC: $10k → 11%COMMONWEAL: $25k → 8%REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $10k → 13%PRODUCER HUB INC: $5k → 11%COMMONWEAL: $25k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $20k → 8%REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $5k → 13%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $5k → 14%COMMONWEAL: $15k → 8%REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INC: $5k → 13%COMMONWEAL: $10k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
MD
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 46 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
80

Total granted

$2.1M
$874k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+8%

Still filing today

93%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $732k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • T5
    THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +3%
  • LM
    LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +77%
  • NY
    NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • OT
    OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • NF
    NOCHE FLAMENCA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • MB
    MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
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
Pangea World Theater

Pangea World Theater strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices of solidarity, sustainability and equity.

Arts & Culture
2
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
3
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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4
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
5
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

—
6
The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc

The Theater of the Emerging American Moment, Inc. (The TEAM), is a Brooklyn-based theatre ensemble whose mission is to collaboratively create new works about the experience of living in America today, and to generate dialogue about our…

Arts & Culture
7
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

—
8
Profile Theatre Project

Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…

Arts & Culture
9
The Actors Center Inc

Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.

Arts & Culture
10
The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
12
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakland Theater Project; the most unlike its peers is The Covid Plasma Initiative Foundation. 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

154 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. 154 of the 165 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/154
Grantees still filing
81/154
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC: $270,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 52ND STREET PROJECT INCLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $163,000 · Arts & CultureLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INCartEquity Community: $153,000 · Arts & CultureartEquity CommunityNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureSAFE SPACE PICTURES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $99,100 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $90,000 · Arts & CultureNOTCH THEATRE COMPANY: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+70 more: $1,336,578 · Arts & Culture+70 moreZACCHO S F: $120,000 · OtherZACCHO S FBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $90,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSI…ORFEO ENSEMBLE INC: $80,000 · OtherORFEO ENSEMBLE INCHispanic Heritage Foundation: $30,000 · OtherPowerCorpsPHL: $30,000 · Other+51 more: $457,580 · Other+51 moreCOMMONWEAL: $100,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Human ServicesPRODUCER HUB INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10,000 · Human ServicesRaft Foundation Inc: $7,500 · Human Services+4 more: $15,500 · Human ServicesTEACH WITH AFRICA: $30,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $20,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalTibet Fund Inc: $10,000 · InternationalWAR CHILD USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $10,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalELEPHANT CIRCLE: $40,500 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York: $15,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalNO MORE TEARS INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalMINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND: $5,000 · Crime & LegalGLOBAL KIDS INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE ART COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentDeep Medicine Circle: $50,000 · HealthTHE COVID PLASMA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,401,678Other$807,580Human Services$168,000International$127,000Crime & Legal$75,500Youth Development$70,500Health$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC: $270,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $163,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetartEquity Community: $153,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $100,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $99,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNOTCH THEATRE COMPANY: $85,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTALKING BAND: $55,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetSPACE ON THE FARMINC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGLOBAL KIDS INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetDeep Medicine Circle: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNOCHE FLAMENCA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFreshgrass Public Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPerseverance Theatre Incorporated: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $32,078 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPowerCorpsPHL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEACH WITH AFRICA: $30,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHispanic Heritage Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSYNAESTHETIC THEATRE CO CHRIS NICHOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMarin Theatre Company: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetANDRE CAILLOUX CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSundance Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Free History Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPUBLIC TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC: $17,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOLK ARTS RAJASTHAN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 5.7% 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.

Jkw Foundation Tr Ua …The Shubert Foundatio…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Ford FoundationThe Lucille Lortel Fo…New England Foundatio…Tides FoundationThe Map Fund IncDoris Duke Charitable…Axe-Houghton Foundati…Booth Ferris Foundati…
Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597NY88.1× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597 · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Tides Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008

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 Distracted Globe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Distracted Globe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Bread & Puppet Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
48report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Distracted Globe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Distracted Globe Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 165 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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