· Private foundation
Radio Drama Network Inc
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $728k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB | $210,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ARTS RELATIONS (INTAR) | $175,000 |
| BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CULTURE HUB | $85,000 |
| PITCHBLACK IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES | $58,400 |
| HISPANIC ORGANIZATION OF LATIN ARTIST | $45,000 |
| POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $35,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PIPITCHBLACK Immersive Experiences Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $365k · revenue +23% · 83% of their budget
- CICULTUREHUB INC3× · 2023–2025 · $235k · revenue +23%
- HOHispanic Organization of Latin Actors Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +457% · 61% of their budget
Funded once
- ESENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $280k · revenue +201% · 27% of their budget
- MVMARILYN VIOLET FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $93k
- NPNuyorican Poets Cafe Incone grant, 2022 · $69k · revenue -90%
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.
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.
Our mission is to introduce the public to the best works of Spanish and Pan Latino playwrights, both contemporary and classical and to foster an appreciation of the richness of Latin American and Iberian cultures.
Promoting new artists in the performing arena
Create original theatre pieces at La MaMa Theatre, Howl, Bohemian National Hall, East Village Basement, in New York City and the Jersey City Theater Center, as well as puppet shows, poetry art & music events,and film screenings.
To facilitate the creation and development of theatrical works through readings, workshops and work in progress presentations.
Harlem Film House provides access and opportunity for creative entrepreneurs and independent storytellers by producing programs platforms and events that support artistic development audience engagement and career growth Through film media…
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…
Open Fist Theatre Company is a self-governing community of theatre artists who believe in the transformative imperative of inclusive and collaborative theatre. Dedicated to expanding social awareness through art, we seek, through diverse…
The Avenue Blackbox is a bold, Black-led multidisciplinary performance space in Rochester, NY's Historic Joseph Avenue neighborhood, providing affordable and culturally rich experiences created by artists of color, youth, LGBTQIA+…
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PITCHBLACK Immersive Experiences Inc ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CULTUREHUB INC ↗
- Who funds Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors Inc ↗
- Who funds Reel Stories dba Camp Reel Stories ↗
- Who funds POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Nuyorican Poets Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTO ARTE TEATRAL INTERNACIONAL 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: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Radio Drama Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Radio Drama Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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