· Private foundation
Jerome Robbins Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k67 grants · $336k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $499k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $451k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $201,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK STAGE & FILM | $100,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $50,000 |
| THE JOYCE THEATER | $45,000 |
| BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER | $43,500 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET | $30,000 |
| ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKES | $30,000 |
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $30,000 |
| CAROLINA BALLET | $27,500 |
| AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | $18,000 |
| EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER | $17,500 |
| GINA GIBNEY DANCE | $15,000 |
| JOFFREY BALLET | $15,000 |
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +52%
- BABROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +1%
- BABARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TBTHE BANG GROUP INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -38%
OREGON BALLET THEATREone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +9%- HHI-ARTSone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
New jersey dance theatre ensemble provides the highest quality, pre-professional training to aspiring dancers from new jersey through professional experiences with world-renowned dancers, teachers, choreographers, and musicians. founded in…
Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.
Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bang Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
96 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. 96 of the 141 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 NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WORKS AND PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIPE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB 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: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Mertz Gilmore 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 Jerome Robbins 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.
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% 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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