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Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation at a glance

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Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$483kEducation$90kEnvironment$59kHealth$10kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Sundance Institute$50,000
New Dramatists$10,500
The Way of the Rain$10,000
The English Speaking Union of the United States$10,000
Downtown Community Television Ctr$10,000
Hunter College Theater Dept$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Mount Sinai Health System: $10k → 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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$541k · 14 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$541k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TP
    THE PALM BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +14% · 76% of their budget
  • RC
    REDFORD CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +154%
  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • D
    DCTV
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • TS
    The Sundance Institute Lab Office
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc

Soho repertory provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. we elevate artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and…

Arts & Culture
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
4
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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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
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
7
Huntington Theatre Co Inc

See schedule o for organization's mission statementmission statement: the huntington theatre company engages, inspires, entertains and challenges audiences with theatrical productions that range from the classics to new works; we train and…

Arts & Culture
8
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center Inc

Founded in 1981, vineyard theatre is an off-broadway theatre company dedicated to developing and producing new plays and musicals that push boundaries of what theatre can be and do. we seek to nurture a daring community of theatre makers…

Arts & Culture
9
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc

Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…

Arts & Culture
10
New York Stage and Film Inc

New york stage and film is a not-for-profit company dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of new theater and film, away from critical and commercial pressures.

Arts & Culture
11
The Irish Repertory Theatre Companyinc

The irish repertory theatre (the "theatre") mission is to bring works by irish and irish american masters and contemporary playwrights to american audiences, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary irish american experience…

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12
Berwin Lee & Brown London New York Playwrights

To improve the craft of playwriting in the united states and london.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is An Claidheamh Soluis Inc; the most unlike its peers is Musical Theater Works International Co. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PALM BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INCTHE WAY OF THE RAIN INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WAY OF THE RAIN INCSundance Institute: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteDOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INCPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $30,500 · Arts & CulturePOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICANew DramatistsInc: $16,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTWOTR: $75,000 · OtherTWOTRThe English Speaking Union of the United States: $47,000 · OtherThe English Speaking Union of the Uni…DCTV Downtown Community Television Ctr: $30,000 · OtherDCTV Downtown Community Television Ct…MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $18,000 · OtherMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INCDCTV: $10,000 · OtherThe Yale School of Drama: $10,000 · OtherThe Sundance Institute Lab Office: $10,000 · OtherHunter College Theater Dept: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $4,500 · OtherREDFORD CENTER INC: $58,500 · EnvironmentREDFORD CE…THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationNEW ROCHELLE FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $1,500 · EducationMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$317,000Other$214,500Environment$58,500Education$41,500Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PALM BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $120,000 over 2y, 76% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $58,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WAY OF THE RAIN INC: $53,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $30,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ROCHELLE FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSURPRISE LAKE CAMP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jesse & Dorothy Hartman 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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