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EMMA A SHEAFER CHARITABLE TR XXXXX7006

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

EMMA A SHEAFER CHARITABLE TR XXXXX7006

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$350k

Granted FY2024

13

Grants

1

Communities

$40k

Largest

01What you fundRead

03Your edgeRead

04Your fieldRead

05Through PlinthRead

01What you fund

0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$30kOther$1.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

art

2020

yorkers cultureproductions

2021

—

2022

group

2023

groupdance

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000

Median grant

1

States reached

$9.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

THEATER ET AL DBA$40,000
THEATER MITU$40,000
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC$40,000
COLT COEUR THEATER COMPANY$30,000
DANCING IN THE STREET INC$25,000
EPIC PLAYERS INC$25,000
BRAATA PRODUCTION INC$25,000
OYE GROUP INC$25,000
PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY$25,000
FAULT LINE THEATRE$20,000
THALIA SPANISH THEATER$20,000
CULTUREHUB INC$20,000
MOLIERE IN THE PARK INC$15,000

02The need

04

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 40 repeat orgs$741k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40

21

Total granted

$2.1M

$586k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+85%

Still filing today

65%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

HT
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +236%
RM
RAGA MASSIVE INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +6%
TM
TARGET MARGIN THEATER
2× · 2019–2020 · $60k · revenue +52%

Funded once

TH
THE HARLEM CHAMBER PLAYERSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +224%
EG
EN GARDE ARTSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +85%
TA
TRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +109%

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.

1

Theatre Lab Inc

Since 2006, Theaterlabs mission is to serve New Yorks diverse communities of artists and the general public by presenting and developing new theater works. Theaterlab is a women and artist-led laboratory dedicated to researching the nature…

Arts & Culture

2

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

3

Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company, a professional, multi-racial company, promotes cultural pluralism and individual equality through artistic excellence, using theatre to address artificial barriers that keep people from succeeding in American…

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4

Instituto Arte Teatral Internacional Inc

IATI Theater, est. 1968, is a NY-based bilingual Latinx performing arts company with a mission to create, develop and present productions for contemporary Latinx artists.

Arts & Culture

5

Ensemble Studio Theatre Inc

To develop and produce original, provocative, and authentic new plays that engage and challenge audiences in New York City and across the country.

Arts & Culture

6

Revo Inc

The theater company's mission is to create, tour, and produce theatrical performances as a permanent resident company committed to artistic risk, physicality, absurdism, and poetic work.

Arts & Culture

7

The Broadway Dance Lab Inc

To provide choreographers time and space to practice their craft and test their ideas.

Public Benefit

8

The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture

9

Theo Ubique Theatre

The mission of theo ubique theater company is to engage actors and audiences in an intimate and honest conversation with great theatrical works, including musicals, reviews, and dramas in a cabaret setting.

Arts & Culture

10

Nicus Spoon Inc

The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.

Arts & Culture

11

Yard Theater Inc

Providing affordable options for artists in classes, rehearsals, film/photo shoots, and live productions.

Arts & Culture

12

Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance works in partnership with New York City immigrant communities to sustain diverse performing arts traditions and share them with the general public.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre of the Oppressed Nyc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parity Productions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

9%

3,372/36,030

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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

1

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

25

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

38/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,765,250Other$1,042,250Human Services$50,000Civil Rights$30,000

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 Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY73.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Dance Service New York City Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Alliance of Resident Theatres · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Ford 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 EMMA A SHEAFER CHARITABLE TR XXXXX7006 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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: SUPERHERO CLUBHOUSE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853620846 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 SUPERHERO CLUBHOUSE, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% 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 Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006?

Find your warmest path to Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006 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.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines