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Rodgers and Hammerstein 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $2,500 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE | $2,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS | $2,000 |
| VINEYARD THEATRE | $1,500 |
| CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY | $1,500 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS | $1,500 |
| THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND | $1,500 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $1,500 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE | $1,500 |
| EUGENE ONEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER | $1,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE | $1,000 |
| THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- RTROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +30%
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
- TNTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NNAMTone grant, 2021 · $2k
- GOGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +146%
- VTVINEYARD THEATERone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
To create radically re-imagined versions of classics and new creations inspired by existing sources.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York Theatre Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Making Books Sing Inc Dba New York City Childrens Theater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds York Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New DramatistsInc ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSICAL THEATER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM AND THEATRE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds Making Books Sing Inc DBA New York City Childrens Theater ↗
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 Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Shen Family Foundation · Jerome Robbins Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 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.
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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