· Public charity
Northern Stage Company
The organization's mission is to change lives one story at a time.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCCARTER THEATER CENTER | $390,000 |
| ALLIANCE THEATRE | $390,000 |
| GOODMAN THEATRE | $390,000 |
| WP THEATRE | $350,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $292,500 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE | $120,000 |
| WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE | $97,500 |
| JUNGLE THEATRE | $30,000 |
| ALLIANCE THEATRE | $30,000 |
| GOODMAN THEATRE | $30,000 |
| CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +23%
MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +94%- WMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- OSOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +24%
- GIGOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +84%
NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -56%
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.
Develop recognition of international theater
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies
Organization mission: act is a contemporary theatre where artistic ambition and civic engagement unite. organization vision: act envisions a world where the power of theatre expands our collective understanding of community and our own…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Goat in the Road Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENSEMBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JUNGLE THEATER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
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 · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Northern Stage Company 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.
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 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.
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