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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Sundance Institute | $50,000 |
| New Dramatists | $10,500 |
| The English Speaking Union of the United States | $10,000 |
| The Way of the Rain | $10,000 |
| Downtown Community Television Ctr | $10,000 |
| Hunter College Theater Dept | $10,000 |
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.
Your 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 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- TPTHE PALM BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +14% · 76% of their budget
- RCREDFORD CENTER INC5× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +154%
- THTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- DDCTVone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
- TSThe Sundance Institute Lab Officeone grant, 2023 · $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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
To improve the craft of playwriting in the united states and london.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is An Claidheamh Soluis Inc and 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.
15 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. 15 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 THE PALM BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAY OF THE RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds New DramatistsInc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ROCHELLE FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds Musical Theater Works International Co ↗
- Who funds SURPRISE LAKE CAMP ↗
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 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
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 Jesse & Dorothy Hartman 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.
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% 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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