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Stephen & Ruth Hendel Foundation at a glance

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Stephen & Ruth Hendel 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.

$526k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.0MArts & Culture$959kReligion$342kEducation$121kInternational$89kEnvironment$12kAnimals$10kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$80k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE$155,000
THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR$50,000
NXT HVN INC$50,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION$35,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES$35,000
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS FUND$35,000
WESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER$33,800
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY$25,000
ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE$21,400
THE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC$10,000
TECTONIC THEATRE PROJECT INC$10,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP$9,550
NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM$5,558
DANCE LAB NEW YORK$5,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $25k → 14%WESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER: $41k → 9%HYPOKRIT FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%YOUNG DANCE COLLECTIVE: $6k → 20%BATONGA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%NXT HVN INC: $50k → 12%THE NEW GROUP INC: $7k → 16%THE MUSIC IN ME FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES: $75k → 10%HENRY S HOPE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER: $34k → 9%BATONGA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER: $20k → 9%THE CELL THEATER: $10k → 17%SEE SCHEDULE: $1.6M → 9%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES: $50k → 17%SEE SCHEDULE: $597k → 9%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES: $35k → 17%ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $36k → 20%VARIOUS 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS-: $555k → 9%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS FUND: $35k → 17%ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $21k → 20%VARIOUS 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS-: $195k → 9%NEW YORK FINE ARTS: $24k → 17%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $50k → 20%TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT: $10k → 17%ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $10k → 20%THEATRE COMMUNICATION GROUP: $9k → 17%THEATRE COMMUNICATION GROUP: $7k → 17%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION: $35k → 17%THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR: $50k → 17%JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50k → 17%THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR: $50k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $13k → 17%NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $10k → 17%EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE: $155k → 17%EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE: $33k → 17%EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE: $15k → 17%ARTS NOVA THEATER INC: $7k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $10k → 17%WATER WELL TRUST: $12k → 17%THE PLAY COMPANY: $21k → 17%THE PLAY COMPANY: $20k → 17%TECTONIC THEATRE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%THE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $10k → 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

NH
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 23 repeat orgs$698k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
29

Total granted

$1.6M
$598k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+4%

Still filing today

57%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationInternationalAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +39%
  • BF
    BATONGA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • YD
    YOUNG DANCE COLLECTIVE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +4%
  • EO
    EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $95k · revenue -39%
  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
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
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
3
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
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
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
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
8
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc

Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…

Arts & Culture
9
Spanish Theatre Repertory Company Ltd

To present, in a rotating repertory, the finest latin american, spanish, and latino usa theatre and to serve as a catalyst for cultural exchange between spanish and english speaking americans.

Arts & Culture
10
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc

OUR MISSION - Roundabout celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future. OUR WORK - We produce familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals…

Arts & Culture
11
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
12
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henrys Hope Foundation. 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

42 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. 42 of the 71 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
20/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS-: $749,890 · OtherVARIOUS 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS-EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE: $203,351 · OtherEUGENE O'NEILL THEATREWESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER: $134,661 · OtherWESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTERTHE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR: $100,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES: $75,000 · Other+27 more: $295,945 · Other+27 moreNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INCNXTHVN INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNXTHVN INCEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THE…ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $67,800 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INCTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $51,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY…CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $22,050 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $127,798 · Arts & Culture+21 moreNEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $85,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $3,500 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyBATONGA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNFA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHENRYS HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,558,847Arts & Culture$598,648Education$111,000International$88,500Philanthropy$57,000Animals$10,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

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 budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $110,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNXTHVN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $95,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $67,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $51,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $22,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $21,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBATONGA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG DANCE COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $11,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRYS HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetWATERWELL PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHYPOKRIT FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetLISMORE ROAD INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARS NOVA THEATER I INC: $7,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $5,558 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $4,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $4,090 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIASCO THEATER LTD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNFA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORWICH FREE ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarde Arts Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Mamaroneck Fire Department: $200 over 1y, 0.6% 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…Jewish Communal FundThe Lucille Lortel Fo…The Ford FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Tides FoundationRichenthal FoundationAxe-Houghton Foundati…The Andrew W Mellon F…Tony Randall Theatric…The Bwf Foundation
The Shubert Foundation IncNY31.4× affinity13 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 · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Tides Foundation · Richenthal Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc · The Bwf Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Nxthvn Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Stephen & Ruth Hendel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephen & Ruth Hendel 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 71 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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