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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.

$134k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2022.

Arts & Culture$174kFood & Nutrition$7k
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $35,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $133,948 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $98,348 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.
$6,080
Median grant
4
States reached
$238k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RISING YOUTH THEATER: $9k → 11%THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT: $6k → 12%DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE: $9k → 14%PANGEA WORLD THEATER: $7k → 11%FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE: $7k → 13%TEADA PRODUCTIONS: $10k → 14%NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL LAB: $5k → 16%NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY: $7k → 17%THE TEAM: $8k → 20%ARCHOR ARTS MANAGEMENT INC: $6k → 15%THEATRE NOHGAKU INC: $6k → 11%PLACEBASE PRODUCTIONS: $5k → 11%SU TEATRO: $10k → 12%MONDO BIZARRO PRODUCTIONS: $7k → 23%OPEN FLAME THEATRE: $5k → 11%TEADA PRODUCTIONS: $7k → 14%NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY: $6k → 17%RADICAL EVOLUTION PERFORMANCE: $8k → 20%ARTSPOT PRODUCTIONS: $6k → 23%THE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT: $6k → 17%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

MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
LA
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85k · 6 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$85k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
+138%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • TP
    TEADA PRODUCTIONS
    2× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +127%
  • BT
    BORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +249%
  • AP
    ArtSpot Productions Inc
    2× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +537%

Funded once

  • ST
    SU TEATRO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +257%
  • DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +138%
  • RE
    RADICAL EVOLUTION PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -22%
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
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
2
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

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3
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
4
Haven Arts Theatre

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

Arts & Culture
5
Ghost Road Company

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Open Fist Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Roots and All Theatre Ensemble
Arts & Culture
8
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
9
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
10
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
11
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
12
Theatre Tweed Inc

Promoting new artists in the performing arena

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North American Cultural Laboratory; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 20 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RISING YOUTH THEATRE: $17,650 · Arts & CultureRISING YOUTH THEATRETEADA PRODUCTIONS: $16,500 · Arts & CultureTEADA PRODUCTIONSBORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC: $15,200 · Arts & CultureBORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INCNOTCH THEATRE COMPANY: $12,880 · Arts & CultureNOTCH THEATRE COMPANYArtSpot Productions Inc: $11,400 · Arts & CultureArtSpot Productions IncSU TEATRO INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSU TEATRO INCRADICAL EVOLUTION PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureRADICAL EVOLUTION PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE INCThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc: $8,000 · Arts & CultureThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment IncPangea World Theater: $7,016 · Arts & CultureMondo Bizarro Productions: $6,840 · Arts & CultureFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $6,600 · Arts & CultureTHE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC: $6,360 · Arts & CultureANCHOR ARTS MANAGEMENT INC: $6,240 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE NOHGAKU INC: $5,800 · Arts & CultureTHE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD: $5,600 · Arts & CultureNORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL LABORATORY: $5,200 · Arts & CultureCultural Images Group Inc: $11,680 · OtherCultural Images Gro…DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $8,880 · OtherDOUBLE EDGE THEATRE…PLACEBASE PRODUCTIONS: $5,280 · OtherPLACEBASE PRODUCTIO…OPEN FLAME: $5,192 · OtherOPEN FLAME
Arts & Culture$149,286Other$31,032

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRISING YOUTH THEATRE: $17,650 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTEADA PRODUCTIONS: $16,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNOTCH THEATRE COMPANY: $12,880 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCultural Images Group Inc: $11,680 over 2y, 35% of budgetArtSpot Productions Inc: $11,400 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSU TEATRO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPangea World Theater: $7,016 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMondo Bizarro Productions: $6,840 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $6,600 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC: $6,360 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTHE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD: $5,600 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL LABORATORY: $5,200 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

New England Foundatio…National Performance …Tides FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Map Fund IncNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Network of Ensemble Theaters Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Network of Ensemble Theaters Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • The Performance Project Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Network of Ensemble Theaters Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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