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National New Play Network Ltd

The national new play network is the country's alliance of non-profit theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays.

$483k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$2.3MCommunity Improvement$11kScience & Tech$8k
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $390,155, the rows itemized in this filing. The $482,997 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $92,842 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $276k
$9,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$872k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIXED BLOOD THEATRE$44,155
EAST WEST PLAYERS$25,000
PERSEVERANCE THEATRE$24,000
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE$24,000
COMPANY ONE$22,500
MILAGRO$20,500
CITY THEATRE COMPANY$20,000
CURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY$19,000
THEATER ALLIANCE$18,250
TUYO THEATRE$17,500
MAGIC THEATRE$16,500
CARA MIA THEATRE$15,000
INTERACT THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE$9,000
UNICORN THEATRE$8,250
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 (FY24–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTERSTAGE THEATRE AT THE JCC: $8k → 14%STUDIO LUNA: $17k → 14%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

AK
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
LA
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 41 repeat orgs$606k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
36

Total granted

$1.7M
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CP
    CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +257%
  • MB
    Mixed Blood Theatre Company
    5× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
  • IT
    INTERACT THEATER COMPANY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +149% · 78% of their budget

Funded once

  • CW
    CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +31%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF HEALTH CARE SHARING MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +30%
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
Haven Arts Theatre

We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.

Arts & Culture
2
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
3
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
4
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
5
Actors Company of Natick

The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
React Theatre

Charitable and Educational. Non-Profit Theatre Company inculcating in the general public a greater appreciation of the dramatic and performing arts.

Arts & Culture
8
The Chicken Coop Theatre Company
Arts & Culture
9
One Light Theatre Co
Arts & Culture
10
San Lorenzo Valley Mountain Community Theater
Arts & Culture
11
Theo Ubique Theatre

The mission of theo ubique theater company is to engage actors and audiences in an intimate and honest conversation with great theatrical works, including musicals, reviews, and dramas.in a cabatet setting with food service available.

Arts & Culture
12
Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Curious Theatre Company; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester 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

73 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. 73 of the 101 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/73
Grantees still filing
51/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $135,500 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INCINTERACT THEATER COMPANY: $93,399 · Arts & CultureINTERACT THEATER COMPANYMAGIC THEATRE INC: $83,750 · Arts & CultureMAGIC THEATRE INCOrlando Shakespeare Theater Inc: $80,200 · Arts & CultureCOMPANY ONE INC: $77,250 · Arts & CultureThe 16th Street Theater NFP: $73,850 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $60,495 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY REPERTORY COMPANY: $56,500 · Arts & Culture+50 more: $899,063 · Arts & Culture+50 moreMixed Blood Theatre Company: $94,655 · OtherMixed Blood Theatre CompanySAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $84,285 · OtherSAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INCSOUTHERN REPERTORY THEATRE: $34,500 · OtherThe Prop Theater Group: $29,000 · OtherEAST WEST PLAYERS: $25,000 · OtherActors Theatre of Charlotte: $25,000 · OtherPERSEVERANCE THEATRE: $24,000 · Other+31 more: $366,760 · Other+31 moreCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF HEALTH CARE SHARING MINISTRIES: $11,250 · Community ImprovementGilloury Institute: $10,000 · InternationalLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC: $7,500 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,560,007Other$683,200Human Services$24,000Community Improvement$11,250International$10,000Education$7,500

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 budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $135,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMixed Blood Theatre Company: $94,655 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetINTERACT THEATER COMPANY: $93,399 over 5y, 78% of budgetSAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $84,285 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC: $83,750 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetOrlando Shakespeare Theater Inc: $80,200 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPANY ONE INC: $77,250 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetThe 16th Street Theater NFP: $73,850 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $60,495 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY REPERTORY COMPANY: $56,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetActors Express Inc: $49,350 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetPHOENIX THEATRE INC: $47,250 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $44,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $44,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY: $42,080 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE: $40,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMarin Theatre Company: $39,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMIRACLE THEATRE GROUP: $37,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHERN REPERTORY THEATRE: $34,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetKITCHEN DOG THEATER: $32,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPerseverance Theatre Incorporated: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE CO: $29,850 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVortex Repertory Company: $29,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNICORN THEATRE: $28,450 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe City Theatre Company Inc: $27,333 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetActors Theatre of Charlotte: $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetALLEYWAY THEATRE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL: $22,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $16,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGOOD COMPANY PERFORMING ARTS: $15,750 over 2y, 12% of budgetOREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE: $15,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTAGE LEFT THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCapital Stage Company: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSYNCHRONICITY PERFORMANCE GROUP: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE OF HEALTH CARE SHARING MINISTRIES: $11,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGilloury Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERACT INC: $9,900 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHALCYON THEATRE: $7,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetCongo Square Theatre Company: $7,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetACME PERFORM GRP DBA MOV'G ARTS: $7,500 over 1y, 7.2% 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 Shubert Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…Theater League IncIbm International Fou…The Map Fund IncGaylord and Dorothy D…Theatre Communication…Tides FoundationThe Sheri and Les Bil…Caplin FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationArts Midwest Incorpor…
The Shubert Foundation IncNY105.4× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Theater League Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Theatre Communications Group Inc · Tides Foundation · The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arts Midwest Incorporated

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 National New Play Network Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National New Play Network Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Artists Repertory Theatre: 48% of income from government
  • Passage Theatre Company Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Miracle Theatre Group: 6% of income from government
  • Oregon Contemporary Theatre: 5% of income from government
  • Company One Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Mile Square Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 101 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 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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By state
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