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Educational Theatre Association Foundation

The educational theatre foundation (etf) is the philanthropic arm of the educational theatre association (edta).

$129k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$606kEducation$80k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $55,996, the rows itemized in this filing. The $129,306 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $73,310 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$55,996
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Educational Theatre Association$55,996
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Westwood High School: $10k → 11%Academy of the Pacific Rim: $10k → 16%Malcolm Public Schools District 148: $10k → 13%Pine Island High School: $10k → 9%Park High School: $10k → 10%Harry S Truman High School: $10k → 6%Mastery Charter Schools Foundation: $10k → 22%American Canyon High School: $10k → 9%Seaside High School: $10k → 12%Henry J Kaiser High School: $10k → 14%Vaughn Next Century Learning Center: $10k → 14%Mariposa County High School: $20k → 15%Nanakuli High and Intermediate School: $10k → 9%Peekskill High School: $10k → 9%Jack Yates High School: $10k → 16%Alice High School: $10k → 25%Pharr San Juan Alamo North Early College High School: $10k → 27%Digital Arts and Technology Academy: $10k → 14%Henryetta High School: $10k → 19%School Without Walls: $10k → 14%Plant City High School: $10k → 13%Hallandale High School: $10k → 13%Jefferson High School: $10k → 9%John R Mott High School: $10k → 12%Heritage High School: $10k → 18%Hamtramck High School: $10k → 21%Charles Henderson High School: $10k → 27%Leavenworth High School: $10k → 10%Grand Center Arts Academy: $10k → 21%Hudson High School: $10k → 5%Regis St Mary Catholic School: $10k → 14%Enfield High School: $10k → 11%John Overton Comprehensive High School: $10k → 14%Jackson County High School: $10k → 19%Central Falls High School: $10k → 14%The Howard School: $10k → 13%Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy: $10k → 12%Scecina Memorial High School: $10k → 16%Dublin Scioto High School: $10k → 15%Educational Theatre Association: $80k → 16%Rainier Beach High School: $10k → 9%Martinsburg High School: $10k → 11%Glenbard West High School: $10k → 7%Gautier High School: $10k → 16%Bound Brook High School: $10k → 5%Union Senior High School: $10k → 10%Heritage High School: $10k → 4%Educational Theatre Association: $56k → 16%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

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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 field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 54 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Heritage High School: $20,000 · OtherMariposa County High School: $20,000 · Other+48 more: $480,000 · Other+48 moreEDUCATIONAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $135,996 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL THEATRE AS…The Howard School Inc: $10,000 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationVAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · Education
Other$520,000Arts & Culture$135,996Education$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCATIONAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $135,996 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Howard School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Howard School Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Educational Theatre Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Educational Theatre Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 54 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $568k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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