· Private foundation
Purple Plume Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POWERHOUSE ARTS | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT | $15,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $15,000 |
| SDC FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| PAGE 73 | $10,000 |
| YOUR KIDS OUR KIDS | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES | $10,000 |
| MAMARONECK-LARCHMONT STUDENT AID FUND | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE | $10,000 |
| TDF | $5,000 |
| BECK INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM | $2,500 |
| GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY | $2,500 |
| ARTS IGNITE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $160k · revenue +43%
- TTTectonic Theater Project Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +157%
- TNTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- JCJPM CHARITABLE GIVING FUNDone grant, 2022 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TTTHE TANK LTDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +115%
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.
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.
To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
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.…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANK LTD ↗
- Who funds Tectonic Theater Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MAMARONECK-LARCHMONT STUDENT AID FUND ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds POWERHOUSE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Cognitive Therapy and Research ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUR KIDS OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IGNITE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Steven a and Marianne M Mills Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Purple Plume Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Purple Plume Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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