· Private foundation
Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k18 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $25,000 |
| THE NEW GROUP INC | $25,000 |
| AANT (AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE) | $25,000 |
| AANT (AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE) | $25,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS | $20,000 |
| PEN AMERICA CENTER | $20,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $20,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC | $20,000 |
| PEN AMERICA CENTER | $20,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC | $20,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS | $20,000 |
| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY | $20,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $15,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS3× · 2017–2019 · $178k · revenue +115%
- PHPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +21%
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC5× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- TPTHE PUBLIC THEATER COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TTTGP THEATRE PHILLIPPEone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TGTHE GORILLA REPERTORY THEATER COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
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How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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