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Network of Ensemble Theaters Inc
Net links a diverse array of ensembles and practitioners to one another and the performing arts field, encouraging collaborations and knowledge building and dissemination.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $35,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $133,948 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,348 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONDO BIZARRO PRODUCTIONS | $6,840 |
| FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE | $6,600 |
| NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY | $6,080 |
| THE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT | $5,600 |
| PLACEBASE PRODUCTIONS | $5,280 |
| NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL LAB | $5,200 |
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
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
- TPTEADA PRODUCTIONS2× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +127%
- BTBORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC2× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +249%
- CICultural Images Group Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +75% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- STSU TEATRO INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +257%
DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +138%- TTThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Incone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +20%
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.
Cultural and educational performances
We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.
The Ghost Road Company develops original performance pieces employing Ensemble-Devising and collaborative creation techniques creating experimental theatrical works that are highly physical visceral and visual The companys work emphasizes…
Open Fist Theatre Company is a self-governing community of theatre artists who believe in the transformative imperative of inclusive and collaborative theatre. Dedicated to expanding social awareness through art, we seek, through diverse…
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.
Develop recognition of international theater
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Promoting new artists in the performing arena
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North American Cultural Laboratory and the most unlike its peers is Mondo Bizarro Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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 RISING YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TEADA PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds BORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC ↗
- Who funds NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Cultural Images Group Inc ↗
- Who funds ArtSpot Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds SU TEATRO INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc ↗
- Who funds RADICAL EVOLUTION PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Pangea World Theater ↗
- Who funds Mondo Bizarro Productions ↗
- Who funds FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR ARTS MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE NOHGAKU INC ↗
- Who funds THE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL LABORATORY ↗
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: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · National Performance Network Inc · Tides Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Network of Ensemble Theaters 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Performance Project Inc — 40% of income from government
- Double Edge Theatre Productions 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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