· Private foundation
Laurentshatcher Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $650k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE | $500,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $75,000 |
| PRIMARY STAGES | $75,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC | $50,000 |
| CAA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $50,000 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $50,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| VINEYARD THEATRE | $40,000 |
| SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Laurentshatcher Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- GSGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +32%
- ATATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY7× · 2017–2024 · $495k · revenue +51%
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC7× · 2018–2024 · $490k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- GRGOL REEZ INC (FOR SANAZI TOOSSI)one grant, 2021 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
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Develop recognition of international theater
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,…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cd Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 62 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 GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
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 Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Richenthal Foundation · Jerome Robbins Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Daryl & Steven Roth Foundation · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · The Tow Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson 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 Laurentshatcher Foundation Inc 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.
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% 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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