How much did PURPLE PLUME FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of PURPLE PLUME FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $16k
$10k–50k10 grants · $144k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

POWERHOUSE ARTS$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$15,000
TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT$15,000
SDC FOUNDATION$14,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE$10,000
NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES$10,000
MAMARONECK-LARCHMONT STUDENT AID FUND$10,000
YOUR KIDS OUR KIDS$10,000
PAGE 73$10,000
BECK INSTITUTE$5,000
TDF$5,000
GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY$2,500
NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM$2,500
ARTS IGNITE$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 73% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$850k · 23 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$850k

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+59%

Still filing today

35%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

BC
BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS
4× · 2017–2021 · $155k · revenue +17%
TT
TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT INC
6× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +157%
NA
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +36%

Funded once

CU
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $1.1M
JC
JPM CHARITABLE GIVING FUND
one grant, 2022 · $500k
TT
THE TANKgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +96%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Manhattan theatre club, inc. is a leading producer of new works along with significant revivals.

Arts & Culture

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

The Royal National Theatre

At the national, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring. and we make it for everyone.

Arts & Culture

New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives

Arts & Culture

The New Group Inc

An artist-driven company with a commitment to develop and produce powerful, contemporary theater.

Arts & Culture

York Theatre Company Inc

The York Theatre is an Off-Broadway not-for-profit theatre in New York City dedicated to the development of new musicals and the rediscovery of forgotten gems. Our mission is to cultivate and advance musical theatre among artists,…

Arts & Culture

She Nyc Arts Inc

The organization produces theater and film by women and other gender-marginalized artists, and promotes gender equality in the entertainment industry.

Arts & Culture

New York Film Academy

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Theatreworks Usa Corporation

Theaterworksusa creates exceptional, transformative theatrical experiences for young and family audiences in diverse communities throughout new york city and north america.

Arts & Culture

Theatre Lab Inc

Since 2006, Theaterlabs mission is to serve New Yorks diverse communities of artists and the general public by presenting and developing new theater works. Theaterlab is a women and artist-led laboratory dedicated to researching the nature…

Arts & Culture

En Garde Arts Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture

Soho Repertory Theatre Inc

Soho repertory provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Equality and the most unlike its peers is Syracuse University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

10%

5,310/51,922

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.

04the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

15/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,362,390Arts & Culture$362,500Education$52,500Philanthropy$35,000Crime & Legal$11,667Youth Development$10,000

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.

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.

The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY18× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Pledgeling Foundation · The Ford Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation PURPLE PLUME FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE TANK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +96% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 010798319 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE TANK, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Purple Plume Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Purple Plume Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PURPLE PLUME FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Purple Plume Foundation?

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PURPLE PLUME FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Purple Plume Foundation?

More from the funding graph