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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.

$598k
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$210kCivil Rights$155kPublic Benefit$85kEnvironment$63kYouth Development$50kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k61 grants · $239k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $360k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE$20,000
VINEYARD THEATRE$20,000
ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL$20,000
ATLANTIC THEATER CO$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
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP$10,000
ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC ARTS (AKA THE ORCHARD PROJECT)$10,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%BEYOND US & THEM: $8k → 14%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%THE CITYKIDS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%THE CITYKIDS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%CITY KIDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%THE CITYKIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%THE CITYKIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 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

VT
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DE
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 95 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
29

Total granted

$2.6M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+22%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • PH
    PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +21%
  • TD
    THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +60%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $140k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • AS
    ART SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -97%
  • YV
    YOUNG VIC THEATRE CO
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • G
    GIVEPOWER
    one grant, 2022 · $24k
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
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
3
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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4
Titan Productions Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
6
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
8
The American Playwriting Foundation
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9
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
10
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The Royal National Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Berkeley Repertory Theatre

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…

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

80 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. 80 of the 139 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
54/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYCLUNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $125,000 · OtherNYCLUNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONMCC THEATRE: $110,000 · OtherMCC THEATREBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM): $70,000 · OtherATLANTIC THEATER CO: $70,000 · OtherVINEYARD THEATRE: $65,000 · OtherTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $50,000 · Other+69 more: $889,678 · Other+69 morePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $245,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INCTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $157,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INCNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $60,000 · Arts & CultureEN GARDE ARTS INC: $57,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW GROUP INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureWATERWELL PRODUCTIONS INC: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+43 more: $587,500 · Arts & Culture+43 moreETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $140,000 · EducationTITUS SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVOCACY GROUP INC: $10,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $7,500 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $7,500 · Education+3 more: $15,000 · EducationPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPEACEDALE GLOBAL ARTS INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCITYKIDS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesBEYOND US & THEM: $7,500 · Human ServicesTAMERLAINE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $32,500 · AnimalsART SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INC: $25,000 · Science & Tech
Other$1,379,678Arts & Culture$1,199,500Education$180,000Community Improvement$85,000Human Services$55,000Animals$32,500Science & Tech$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $245,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $157,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC: $57,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $47,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWATERWELL PRODUCTIONS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTAMERLAINE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $32,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHREE GENERATIONS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetART SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Playwrights Realm: $22,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOPHIE GERSON HEALTHY YOUTH INC: $17,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCITYKIDS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAPID DEFENSE NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPS 21 INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCONCERT THEATRE WORKS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE CO: $14,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTITUS SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVOCACY GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC BEFORE 1800 INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEMERGE 125 INC: $8,000 over 3y, 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.

  • 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 THREE GENERATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ART SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Playwrights Realm ↗
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE 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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…The Lucille Lortel Fo…The Shubert Foundatio…Axe-Houghton Foundati…The Hyde and Watson F…The Ford FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…Jewish Communal FundCornelia T Bailey Cha…The Macmillan Family …Alliance of Resident …Booth Ferris Foundati…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY49.2× affinity22 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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
28report 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.

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 139 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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