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Jerome Robbins Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
99
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.4MHousing & Shelter$47kEducation$44kFood & Nutrition$35kReligion$34kHuman Services$32kInternational$24kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $336k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $499k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $451k
$7,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$201,000
NEW YORK STAGE & FILM$100,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$100,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$50,000
THE JOYCE THEATER$45,000
BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER$43,500
MIAMI CITY BALLET$30,000
ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKES$30,000
PACIFIC NORTHWEST 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
BOSTON BALLET$15,000
JOFFREY BALLET$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $30k → 10%THE JOYCE THEATER: $55k → 17%MIAMI CITY BALLET: $35k → 15%CAROLINA BALLET: $28k → 8%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $72k → 9%THE JOYCE THEATER: $55k → 17%MIAMI CITY BALLET: $35k → 15%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $30k → 9%THE JOYCE THEATER: $45k → 17%MIAMI CITY BALLET: $30k → 15%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $30k → 9%THE JOYCE THEATER: $45k → 17%MIAMI CITY BALLET: $30k → 15%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $30k → 9%THE JOYCE THEATER: $45k → 17%MIAMI CITY BALLET: $30k → 15%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $30k → 9%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $75k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $75k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $50k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $50k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $50k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $50k → 20%BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER: $44k → 17%BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER: $43k → 17%BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER: $43k → 17%BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER: $40k → 17%BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER: $40k → 17%ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKES: $30k → 17%NEW YORK STAGE & FILM: $100k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $34k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $30k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $25k → 17%DANCENYC: $25k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $25k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $25k → 17%JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $300k → 17%JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $201k → 17%JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $201k → 17%JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $200k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $100k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $100k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $100k → 17%JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $100k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $100k → 17%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $40k → 17%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $40k → 17%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 111 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
26

Total granted

$6.5M
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

73%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationReligionHealthMembership BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +52%
  • BA
    BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +1%
  • BA
    BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BANG GROUP INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -38%
  • OREGON BALLET THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +9%
  • H
    HI-ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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5
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
6
New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble Inc Attn Barbara Carocci

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Ballet Elite
Arts & Culture
8
Ballet Metropolitan Inc

Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.

Arts & Culture
9
Princeton Ballet Society

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

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…

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11
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
12
Ballet Folklorico De Barajas
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 141 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/96
Grantees still filing
77/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $192,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $139,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $135,000 · Arts & Culture+78 more: $2,703,025 · Arts & Culture+78 moreJEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,005,000 · OtherJEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION NYPL FOR THE PERFO…BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $350,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCTHE JOYCE THEATER: $245,000 · OtherTHE JOYCE THEATERBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $209,500 · OtherBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC+48 more: $1,065,700 · Other+48 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $33,500 · ReligionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · HealthBARD COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationWORLD ZIONIST ORGANIZATION - AMERICAN SECTION INC: $1,000 · EducationMYRIAD USA INC: $2,500 · InternationalTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $1,500 · Membership Benefit
Arts & Culture$3,829,025Other$2,875,200Religion$33,500Health$12,500Education$8,500International$2,500Membership Benefit$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $209,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $192,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $139,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $101,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $101,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $97,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $87,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $81,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $77,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWORKS AND PROCESS INC: $67,750 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC: $62,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY: $62,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $62,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIPE TIME INC: $60,000 over 5y, 61% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $58,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $49,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $47,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $47,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET WEST: $46,875 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetQUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $44,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $40,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN DANCE MACHINE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: $40,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $36,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $36,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $36,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $35,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDANCE HEGINBOTHAM INC: $35,500 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $30,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Tap Dance Foundation inc: $30,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBALLET ARIZONA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $29,125 over 5y, 0.9% 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 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 NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds Clubbed Thumb Inc ↗
  • Who funds LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC ↗

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.

The Shubert Foundatio…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Harkness Foundati…New England Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…Arnhold Foundation IncThe Fan Fox and Lesli…The Lucille Lortel Fo…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Hyde and Watson F…Booth Ferris Foundati…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…
The Shubert Foundation IncNY88.9× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jerome Robbins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome Robbins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jerome Robbins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jerome Robbins Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 141 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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