How much did THE BWF FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of THE BWF 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

2020

stage

2021

—

2022

stella adleradler studioactingstage

2023

women'stheaterbroadway

2024

groupstage

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

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $39k
$10k–50k2 grants · $44k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$116k

Total assets

Largest grants

CALHOUN SCHOOLS INC$31,625
THE BROADWAY LEAGUE$12,175
VINEYARD THEATRE$7,500
THE NEW GROUP$5,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY$3,000
HARLEM STAGE$3,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$3,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$3,000
COLT COEUR$2,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$2,500
BRAELINN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$1,500
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP$1,000
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE$1,000
BALLET HISPANICO$500

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$240k · 20 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$240k

$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+15%

Still filing today

55%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

TB
The Broadway League
2× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +19%
TF
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE
3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +15%
RT
Roundabout Theatre Company
2× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +52%

Funded once

TA
THE ACTORS FUND
one grant, 2022 · $15k
AN
ars nova
one grant, 2020 · $10k
MT
MCC THEATER
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

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

The Shakespeare Theatre

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

Arts & Culture

The Beverly Theater Llc

Arts & Culture

5TH Avenue Theatre Association

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

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

The Center for International Theatre Development

Arts & Culture

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 for the American theatre public.

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

The Studio Theatre Inc

Produces and presents professional theatre productions.

Arts & Culture

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles

As one of the nation's most influential nonprofit theatre companies, los angeles' center theatre group continues its 56-year tradition of using the art of theatre to broaden horizons and illuminate new perspectives at its 3 theatres: the…

Arts & Culture

Jewel Theatre Company

Jewel Theatre Company is dedicated to creating extraordinary productions that explore and advance the art of theatre by entertaining, enlightening and engaging the community.

Arts & Culture

Contemporary American Theater Festival

Theater and other contemporary arts

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Drama League of New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citymeals-On-Wheels. 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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

1,828/20,153

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.

05the grantee network

29 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)

29/29

Grantees still filing

21/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$285,421Arts & Culture$47,100Food & Nutrition$9,100Education$6,000Human Services$5,000Environment$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,000

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 Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Richenthal Foundation · Daryl & Steven Roth Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal 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 THE BWF 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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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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: OFF THE LANE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833323252 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 OFF THE LANE, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% 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.

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How do I get to The Bwf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bwf 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.

THE BWF 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

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bwf Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE BWF 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

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bwf Foundation?

More from the funding graph