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Northern Stage Company

The organization's mission is to change lives one story at a time.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$390k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$11M
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$120,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE THEATRE$390,000
MCCARTER THEATER CENTER$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
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUNGLE THEATRE: $250k → 11%WP THEATRE: $500k → 17%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $505k → 16%WOOLY MAMMOTH THEATRE: $500k → 14%OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $500k → 13%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $500k → 13%GOODMAN THEATRE: $390k → 14%MCCARTER THEATER CENTER: $500k → 11%JUNGLE THEATRE: $250k → 11%WP THEATRE: $350k → 17%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $250k → 16%WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE: $210k → 14%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $390k → 13%GOODMAN THEATRE: $188k → 14%MCCARTER THEATER CENTER: $390k → 11%JUNGLE THEATRE: $175k → 11%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $293k → 17%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $250k → 16%WOOLY MAMMOTH THEATRE: $188k → 14%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $335k → 13%GOODMAN THEATRE: $180k → 14%MCCARTER THEATER CENTER: $210k → 11%JUNGLE THEATRE: $120k → 11%WP THEATRE: $250k → 17%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $250k → 16%WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE: $98k → 14%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $250k → 13%GOODMAN THEATRE: $30k → 14%MCCARTER THEATER CENTER: $188k → 11%JUNGLE THEATRE: $30k → 11%WP THEATRE: $250k → 17%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $188k → 16%WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE: $20k → 14%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $250k → 13%GOODMAN THEATRE: $30k → 14%MCCARTER THEATER CENTER: $75k → 11%JUNGLE THEATRE: $30k → 11%WP THEATRE: $250k → 17%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $120k → 16%WOOLY MAMMOTH THEATRE: $20k → 14%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $250k → 13%WP THEATRE: $210k → 17%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $80k → 16%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $188k → 13%WP THEATRE: $188k → 17%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $30k → 13%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $30k → 13%THE FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT: $21k → 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

NH
MN
IL
NY
OR
NJ
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 9 repeat orgs$820k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$10M
$520k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+84%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +23%
  • MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +94%
  • WM
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • OS
    OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +100%
  • GI
    GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +84%
  • NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -56%
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
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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2
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
3
The Alchemy Theater

The Alchemy Theatre's mission is to present stories with fierce resonant truth, in an intimate and inclusive environment, with professionalism, and in compelling collaboration with quality theatre artists at large.

Arts & Culture
4
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
5
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
6
Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture
7
Roots and All Theatre Ensemble
Arts & Culture
8
Miami New Drama

Miami new drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, dedicated to the development and production of new theatrical work and to theater-making as a means of social engagement, cultural conversation, and…

Arts & Culture
9
P & J Theater Works
Arts & Culture
10
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
11
Laity Theatre Company
—
12
A Contemporary Theatre Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $2,222,500 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INCWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,017,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INCTHE ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $1,642,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ENSEMBLE THEATREMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $1,382,500 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANYWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $1,035,000 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company IncTHE JUNGLE THEATER: $870,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JUNGLE THEATERCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $817,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INCOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $365,800 · Arts & CultureCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $7,500 · Other
Arts & Culture$10,853,300Other$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $2,222,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,017,500 over 7y, 38% of budgetTHE ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $1,642,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $1,382,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $1,035,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetTHE JUNGLE THEATER: $870,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $817,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $292,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $35,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Shubert Foundation IncNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Northern Stage Company funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Stage Company. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to Northern Stage Company?

Find your warmest path to Northern Stage Company 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 14 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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