· Private foundation
Richenthal Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k61 grants · $239k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS | $40,000 |
| THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC | $26,250 |
| MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES | $25,000 |
| THE PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ATLANTIC THEATER CO | $20,000 |
| VINEYARD THEATRE | $20,000 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $20,000 |
| CAMPFIRE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| CONCERT THEATRE WORKS INC | $15,000 |
| LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATER CLUB | $12,500 |
| EN GARDE ARTS INC | $11,000 |
| NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (DBA THE PUBLIC THEATER) | $10,000 |
| WATERWELL PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PHPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +21%
- TDTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +60%
- ECETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $140k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- ASART SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -97%
- YVYOUNG VIC THEATRE COone grant, 2019 · $25k
- GGIVEPOWERone grant, 2022 · $24k
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.
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…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Titan theatre company is committed to breathing new life and clarity into classical works of theatre, exploring new and contemporary language plays, and delivering adventurous and visceral theatrical experiences for our audiences and…
Develop recognition of international theater
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 Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
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…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
Please see schedule o for the complete mission statement.berkeley repertory theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
80 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. 80 of the 139 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds EN GARDE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WATERWELL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TAMERLAINE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds Clubbed Thumb Inc ↗
- Who funds ART SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THREE GENERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Playwrights Realm ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008
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 Richenthal 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% 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.