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Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation at a glance

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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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$186kEmployment$2kEducation$1k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$129k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$2,500
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$2,000
SIGNATURE THEATRE$2,000
GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS$2,000
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS$1,500
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$1,500
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND$1,500
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$1,500
CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY$1,500
VINEYARD THEATRE$1,500
THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE$1,500
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB$1,000
TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE CO$1,000
THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY$1,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE: $2k → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $3k → 20%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS: $2k → 7%THE EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER: $2k → 9%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $3k → 20%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS: $2k → 7%THE EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER: $2k → 9%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $3k → 20%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS: $2k → 7%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $2k → 20%GOODSPEED MUSICALS: $2k → 7%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $2k → 20%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS: $2k → 7%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $2k → 20%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $2k → 20%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 17%NAMT: $2k → 17%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSIC THEATRE: $2k → 17%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 17%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE: $2k → 17%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 17%TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE CO: $2k → 17%THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE: $2k → 17%THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE: $2k → 17%THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $2k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $3k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5k → 17%NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALTHE PUBLIC THEATER JOE'S PUB: $2k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER: $2k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3k → 17%CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $2k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3k → 17%VINEYARD THEATRE: $2k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER: $2k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3k → 17%ENCORES ARCHIVES PROJECT AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $3k → 17%ENCORES ARCHIVES PROJECT AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $2k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB: $2k → 17%SIGNATURE THEATRE: $2k → 17%PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS: $2k → 17%NEW MUSIC USA: $2k → 17%NEW MUSIC USA: $2k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 29 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
7

Total granted

$182k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+146%

Still filing today

79%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • RT
    ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • MS
    MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • N
    NAMT
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • GO
    GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +146%
  • VT
    VINEYARD THEATER
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
—
4
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
5
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
6
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
7
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Bow Street Theatre Trust
—
11
Target Margin Theater Inc

To create radically re-imagined versions of classics and new creations inspired by existing sources.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York Theatre Company Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATERROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INCMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSICTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INCNEW MUSIC USA INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNEW MUSIC USA INCNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $7,250 · Arts & CultureEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INCMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $7,250 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INCYork Theatre Company Inc: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $27,125 · Arts & Culture+11 moreBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $15,500 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOODSPEED MUSICALS: $7,000 · OtherGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATIONGOO…SIGNATURE THEATRE: $6,000 · OtherSIGNATURE THEATREENCORES ARCHIVES PROJECT AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $5,000 · OtherENCORES ARCHIVES PROJECT AT NEW YOR…TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE CO: $5,000 · OtherTRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $5,000 · OtherCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STA…THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $5,000 · OtherTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY…VINEYARD THEATRE: $4,000 · OtherVINEYARD THEATRENEW VICTORY THEATER: $2,500 · OtherNAMT: $2,000 · Other+4 more: $2,750 · OtherTHE MUSICAL THEATER PROJECT INC: $3,500 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$125,125Other$59,750Education$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MUSIC USA INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $7,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $7,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYork Theatre Company Inc: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSICAL THEATER PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM AND THEATRE EDUCATION CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC: $1,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaking Books Sing Inc DBA New York City Childrens Theater: $375 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Shubert Foundatio…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Lucille Lortel Fo…The Shen Family Found…Jerome Robbins Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Shubert Foundation IncNY25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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