· Public charity
New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated
Nefa invests in artists and communities and fosters equitable access to the arts, enriching the cultural landscape in new england and the nation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 219 grants below total $5,396,020 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,442,824 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,046,804 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $341k
- $10k–50k132 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k37 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRODUCER HUB INC | $217,656 |
| PERFORMANCE ZONE INC | $190,169 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $166,250 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS | $133,313 |
| DANCERS GROUP | $113,750 |
| LABORATORIO ARTS INC | $91,400 |
| LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA & ART | $81,750 |
| EMMANUEL GOSPEL CENTER INC | $78,475 |
| CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL PUPPET THEATER FESTIVAL | $71,750 |
| BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC | $71,313 |
| EDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES | $70,000 |
| CNTR LLC | $70,000 |
| KHMER MAINE | $70,000 |
| NUEVA ESPERANZA INC | $70,000 |
| WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION | $70,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $815k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
358 repeat relationships — 138 still active in FY2025, 220 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
FRACTURED ATLAS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $804k · revenue +71%- DGDANCERS GROUP7× · 2019–2025 · $483k · revenue +77%
- TPTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $431k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- DGDANCING GROUNDSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $73k · revenue +95%
- WTWACO THEATER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $72k · revenue -91%
- RPRADAR PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue 0% · 28% of their budget
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.
New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…
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.
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
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,…
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Works and Process Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fathomers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
627 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. 627 of the 766 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds THE TANK LTD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
- Who funds HEADLONG DANCE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PERFORMANCE PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds TEADA PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PRODUCER HUB INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE BOARDS ↗
- Who funds ANANYA DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FUSE BOX AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Circuit Network ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Everett ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Project Bandaloop ↗
- Who funds ART2ACTION INC ↗
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: National Performance Network Inc · The Map Fund Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Barr Foundation · New Music USA Inc · Association of Performing Arts Professionals · Mertz Gilmore 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 New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated 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.
- Ko Theater Works Inc — 85% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Artists Collective Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Urbano Project Inc — 11% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
- Veronica Robles Cultural Center — 5% of income from government
- World Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Puppet Showplace Inc — 4% of income from government
- Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- The New Dance Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Abilities Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Nueva Esperanza Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jean Appolon Expressions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% 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.