How much did DOROTHY LOUDON FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of DOROTHY LOUDON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k16 grants · $68k
$10k–50k2 grants · $53k

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

THEATRE WORLD AWARDS$40,000
URBAN STAGES$12,997
SECOND STAGE$7,500
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND$5,000
THE NEW GROUP THEATER$5,000
SIGNATURE THEATER$5,000
NYCity Center$5,000
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB$4,500
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZON$4,500
CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY$4,500
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$4,500
THE VINEYEARD THEATER$4,500
MINT THEATER COMPANY$4,500
PRIMARY STAGES$4,500
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY$4,500

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 77% of DOROTHY LOUDON FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

DOROTHY LOUDON FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$149k · 16 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$149k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+188%

Still filing today

38%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

MT
Mint Theater Company
2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +51%
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ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY
2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +52%
AT
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY
2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +35%

Funded once

NC
NY City Center
2× · 2017–2018 · $3k
AT
AMERICAN THEATER COMPANY
2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
TG
TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE CO
2× · 2017–2018 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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

The Shakespeare Theatre

Shakespeare theatre company creates world-class (see schedule o for continuation)

Arts & Culture

York Theatre Company Inc

The York Theatre is an Off-Broadway not-for-profit theatre in New York City dedicated to the development of new musicals and the rediscovery of forgotten gems. Our mission is to cultivate and advance musical theatre among artists,…

Arts & Culture

Bow Street Theatre Trust

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Teatro Circulo Ltd

Our mission is to introduce the public to the best works of Spanish and Pan Latino playwrights, both contemporary and classical and to foster an appreciation of the richness of Latin American and Iberian cultures in the

Arts & Culture

Writers Theatre Inc

To present world-class productions of classic, adapted, and original plays, and to provide a wide array of education and enrichment programming for area students and theatre-goers.

Arts & Culture

New York City Players Inc

The New York City Players, Inc. is dedicated to developing, producing, touring and recording the works of Richard Maxwell.

Arts & Culture

Theatreworks Usa Corporation

Theaterworksusa creates exceptional, transformative theatrical experiences for young and family audiences in diverse communities throughout new york city and north america.

Arts & Culture

Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…

Arts & Culture

Theaterworks Inc

Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…

Arts & Culture

5TH Avenue Theatre Association

To nurture, advance, and celebrate all aspects of the great art form: the musical.

Arts & Culture

New York Classical Theatre Inc

New york classical theatre creates and reinvigorates audiences for the theatre by presenting free productions of popular and forgotten classical plays in public spaces throughout new york city. the organization is also committed to…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manhattan Theatre Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citymeals-On-Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

13/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$134,551Arts & Culture$32,500Food & Nutrition$250

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.

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.

The Lucille Lortel Foundation IncNY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation DOROTHY LOUDON 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Mint Theater Company.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +51% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 133687725 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Mint Theater Company, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dorothy Loudon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dorothy Loudon Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DOROTHY LOUDON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dorothy Loudon Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DOROTHY LOUDON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dorothy Loudon Foundation?

More from the funding graph