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Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.9MPhilanthropy$150kEmployment$28kEnvironment$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK POOLED PRIVATE FUND LLC$150,000
PIONEERS GO EAST COLLECTIVE INC$25,000
YAA SAMAR DANCE THEATRE$25,000
MIAMI DANCE FUTURES INC$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS$25,000
CAVE ORGANIZATION INC$25,000
THEATER LABRADO INC$20,000
COLT COEUR THEATER COMPANY$20,000
THEATER MITU$20,000
CULTUREHUB INC$20,000
THALIA SPANISH THEATER$15,000
FAULT LINE THEATRE$15,000
EPIC PLAYERS INC$15,000
02The need
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $25k → 17%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.
$2.4M · 46 repeat orgs$856k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
20

Total granted

$2.4M
$561k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+71%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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 DBA Hi-ARTS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +122%
  • PT
    PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +50%
  • RM
    RAGA MASSIVE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • EG
    EN GARDE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +85%
  • TH
    The Harlem Chamber Players Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +83%
  • TA
    TRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +1%

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
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
2
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
3
Nicus Spoon Inc

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

Arts & Culture
4
The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
5
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
6
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Tigerlion Arts
Arts & Culture
8
Tickle the Sleeping Giant Inc

To create contemporary dance works

Arts & Culture
9
New York Theatre Barn Incorporated

New York Theatre Barn is an inclusive home for artists and a holistic incubator of original culture-shifting musicals.Since 2007 it has given underrepresented artists the freedom to experiment in front of live audiences--often for the…

Arts & Culture
10
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is En Garde Arts 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr15%14%5–10yr21%46%10–20yr22%23%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr9%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr15%15%5–10yr21%47%10–20yr22%21%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr9%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
11%
3,927/36,018

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.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
40/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS — $90,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORKERS FOR CULTURE AND ARTS INC — $75,000 · Arts & CulturePIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureFUTURE RIVER INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+48 more — $1,890,500 · Arts & Culture+48 moreNEW YORK POOLED PRIVATE FUND LLC — $150,000 · OtherNEW YORK POOLED PRIVATE FUND LLCTHEATER ET AL DBA — $115,000 · OtherTHEATER ET AL DBAIndividual grant recipient — $86,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBAAD BRONX ACADEMY OF ARTS — $70,000 · OtherBAAD BRONX ACADEMY OF ARTSMA-YI THEATRE COMPANY — $60,000 · OtherMA-YI THEATRE COMPANYKINGS MAJESTIC CORPORATION DBA — $60,000 · OtherKINGS MAJESTIC CORPORATION DBADancewave Inc — $50,000 · OtherDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherFLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA — $50,000 · OtherThe Lit Fund — $40,000 · Other+7 more — $181,000 · Other+7 moreBROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP — $40,000 · HealthHOUSES ON THE MOON THEATER COMPANY — $30,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$2,205,500Other$962,000Human Services$50,000Health$40,000Civil Rights$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS — $90,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetFUTURE RIVER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetRAGA MASSIVE INC — $70,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHEATER MITU INC — $60,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTARGET MARGIN THEATER INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBraata Productions Inc — $55,250 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetDANCING IN THE STREETS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetFRIGID NEW YORK INC — $55,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetPROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC — $55,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetDancewave Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetKYOUNGS PACIFIC BEAT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetBROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC — $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCOLT COEUR THEATER COMPANY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTeatro Circulo LTD — $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMULTICULTURAL MUSIC GROUP INC — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOYE GROUP INC — $50,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCHORAL CHAMELEON INC — $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCO LAB THEATER GROUP INC — $50,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBCT BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPARITY PRODUCTIONS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCULTUREHUB INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP — $40,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetEPIC PLAYERS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBROKEN BOX MIME THEATER — $40,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHALIA SPANISH THEATRE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFAULT LINE THEATRE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INC — $30,250 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetIrondale Productions Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSES ON THE MOON THEATER COMPANY — $30,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetJACK ARTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSOHO THINK TANK INC — $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMOLIERE IN THE PARK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINDIESPACE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetDance Entropy Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPIONEERS GO EAST COLLECTIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetBIG DANCE THEATER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeartbeat Opera Ltd — $24,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
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 Fou…Alliance of Resident …The Shubert Foundatio…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…The Andrew W Mellon F…Mid Atlantic Arts IncDance Service New Yor…The Harkness Foundati…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…The Ford Foundation
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY96.6× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Dance Service New York City Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · 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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006?

    Find your warmest path to Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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