How much did RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN 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.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

theatretheatermusic

2020

theatertheatremusicmanhattan

2021

aid doneedonee carrycarry outout exemptexempt activities

2022

exempttheatretheatermusicmanhattan

2023

exempttheatretheatermusicmanhattanmusical

2024

exempttheatretheatermusicmanhattanmusical

2025

exempttheatretheatermusicmanhattanmusical

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$129k

Total assets

Largest grants

LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$2,500
GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS$2,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$2,000
SIGNATURE THEATRE$2,000
VINEYARD THEATRE$1,500
THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE$1,500
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$1,500
CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY$1,500
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND$1,500
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$1,500
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS$1,500
NEW MUSIC USA$1,000
THE OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM & THEATRE EDUCATION CENTER$1,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$1,000
TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE CO$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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 89% 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$178k · 31 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$178k

$10k

Still filing today

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

MS
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +18%
RT
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY
7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +52%
NM
NEW MUSIC USA
7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +60%

Funded once

NA
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSIC THEATRE
one grant, 2020 · $2k
N
NAMT
one grant, 2021 · $2k
GM
GOODSPEED MUSICALS
one grant, 2020 · $2k

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.

New Haven Center for Performing

The mission of the new haven center for performing arts is to promote and foster an appreciation for the performing arts through the ownership and operation of indoor and outdoor performing arts facilities; to serve the local community by…

Arts & Culture

United States Institute for Theatre

To actively connect performing arts design and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialog among practitioners, educators, and students.

Arts & Culture

Omaha Theater Company

To inspire young people and their families to discover the magic of theater.

Arts & Culture

5TH Avenue Theatre Association

To nurture, advance, and celebrate all aspects of the great art form: the musical.

Arts & Culture

The Beverly Theater Llc

Arts & Culture

The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture

Broadway Bound Childrens Theatre

To create exceptional theatrical productions that awaken the very best in children and teens.

Arts & Culture

The Center for International Theatre Development

Arts & Culture

Contemporary American Theater Festival

Theater and other contemporary arts

Arts & Culture

The Shakespeare Theatre

Shakespeare theatre company creates world-class (see schedule o for continuation)

Arts & Culture

Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…

Arts & Culture

Writers Theatre Inc

To present world-class productions of classic, adapted, and original plays, and to provide a wide array of education and enrichment programming for area students and theatre-goers.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Music Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 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)

19/19

Grantees still filing

12/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$105,125Arts & Culture$80,250Education$4,000

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 Lucille Lortel Foundation IncNY18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Ford Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN 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

2get 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE.

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.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 133441160 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE, 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 0% 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 Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rodgers and Hammerstein 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.

RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation?

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RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation?

More from the funding graph