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Dorothy Loudon Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$121k
Granted FY2018
18
Grants FY2018
18
Organizations funded FY2018
6%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2018
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 25
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 6% of the organizations Dorothy Loudon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201818$121k6%
FY201725$46kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$123kPhilanthropy$9kAnimals$6kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$3kFood & Nutrition$250Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Dorothy Loudon Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Theatre World Awards Inc$50,0002n/a
Mint Theater Company Inc$7,50020%
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$7,00020%
Atlantic Theater Company$6,50020%
Primary Stages Company Inc$6,50020%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc$6,00020%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$6,00020%
Csc Repertory Ltd D/B/A Classic Stage Company$4,50020%
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$4,00020%
East Hampton Library$1,3542n/a
Red Bull Theater Inc$1,0002n/a
The Playwrights Realm$50020%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$25020%
North Shore Animal League America Inc$10020%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorothy Loudon Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMint Theater Company Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Theater Company: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan Theatre Club Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlaywrights Horizons Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCsc Repertory Ltd D/B/A Classic Stage Company: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Theatre Workshop Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Playwrights Realm: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Shubert Foundation IncNY21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Michael Tuch Foundation Inc · Richenthal Foundation · Jerome Robbins Foundation · Marta Heflin Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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About Dorothy Loudon Foundation

How much does Dorothy Loudon Foundation give?
Dorothy Loudon Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $121,251 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Dorothy Loudon Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), Philanthropy (6%), Animals (4%).
Who are Dorothy Loudon Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Theatre World Awards Inc ($50k), Mint Theater Company Inc ($8k), Roundabout Theatre Company Inc ($7k).
Does Dorothy Loudon Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dorothy Loudon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy Loudon Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc, Axe-Houghton Foundation.
Where is Dorothy Loudon Foundation based?
Dorothy Loudon Foundation is based in NY.

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 26 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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