· Private foundation
In Vivo Productions Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| CHUANG STAGE INC | $608 |
| FRESH INC THEATRE | $579 |
| GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES LLC | $525 |
| THE UMBRELLA ARTS CENTER | $500 |
| THE DRAMATISTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $500 |
| THE BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE | $500 |
| EXPRESS YOURSELF | $500 |
| AARONS PRESENTS | $500 |
| COMPANY ONE THEATER | $500 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
EXPRESS YOURSELF INC4× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +38%- APAARONS PRESENTS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +64%
- DLDRAMATISTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CHCOLUMBUS HUMANEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $258 · revenue +78%
- SDSAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INCone grant, 2021 · $250 · revenue -101%
- SBST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 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…
Develop recognition of international theater
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
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,…
The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.
Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies
Charitable and Educational. Non-Profit Theatre Company inculcating in the general public a greater appreciation of the dramatic and performing arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dramatists Legal Defense Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chuang Stage Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds EXPRESS YOURSELF INC ↗
- Who funds AARONS PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds DRAMATISTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Chuang Stage Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINSOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANY ONE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization In Vivo Productions Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chuang Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Woods Hole Film Festival Inc — 7% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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