· Private foundation
Ruthmary S Westfall Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYRIGHT HORIZON | $30,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| ASXI | $20,000 |
| CJ KIDS INC | $10,000 |
| INCLUDENYC | $8,000 |
| THEATERS BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 47% 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- TBTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +114%
- PHPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +7%
- CKCJ KIDS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +233% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAdvocates for Children of New Yorkone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -20%
- ACAUTISM COMMUNITY THEATRE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CUCATCHING UP WITH JACKone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.
CO/LAB Theater Group Inc, is an IRS 510(c)(3) nonprofit organization, incorporated pursuant to New York State law, which is dedicated to offering Creative Opportunities without Limits And Boundaries. The organization exists to offer…
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…
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…
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…
New York Theatre Barn is an inclusive home for artists and a holistic incubator of original culture-shifting musicals.Since 2007 it has given underrepresented artists the freedom to experiment in front of live audiences--often for the…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Established in 2004, broadway bound kids is a nonprofit providing a transformative and inclusive environment that inspires youth through performing arts education.
At Atlantic, our aim is singular: to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. Across our work, we are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show…
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…
Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resources for Children With Special Needs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cj Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds CJ KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds Extreme Kids and Crew Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP ↗
- Who funds GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Children of New York ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEBURY RIDERS 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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ruthmary S Westfall 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.
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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