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The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Mem Fd at a glance

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The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Mem Fd

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.

$750k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.4MHealth$970kInternational$105kEducation$58kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $550k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MACDOWELL COLONY$140,000
GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC$60,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$25,000
CARNEGIE HALL$25,000
DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$25,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$25,000
BONE MARROW AND CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC$25,000
NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS$25,000
COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC$25,000
SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN QUEENS HOSPITAL$25,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC: $25k → 9%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL QUEENS: $25k → 13%GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $60k → 13%SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 12%LYRIC THEATER: $55k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $25k → 8%COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $50k → 6%DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%MCCARTER THEATRE CENTRE: $25k → 11%THE MACDOWELL COLONY: $150k → 7%TEATRO GRATTACIELO: $25k → 9%GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $50k → 13%THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $100k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $25k → 8%COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $25k → 6%DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $25k → 11%THE MACDOWELL COLONY: $140k → 7%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC: $25k → 9%GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $50k → 13%THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $75k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $25k → 8%COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $25k → 6%MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $130k → 7%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC: $25k → 9%GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $50k → 13%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $25k → 20%THE MACDOWELL COLONY: $125k → 7%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATER INC: $44k → 13%THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCE: $44k → 17%THE MACDOWELL COLONY: $80k → 7%GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATER INC: $44k → 13%THE MACDOWELL COLONY: $70k → 7%THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCE: $44k → 17%VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC: $50k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $50k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $50k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $48k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $44k → 17%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER NY FOR: $44k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $50k → 17%AMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC: $40k → 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
MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
NE
NM
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 38 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
52

Total granted

$4.0M
$442k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+37%

Still filing today

82%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • MA
    MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $695k · revenue +118%
  • TF
    THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $273k · revenue +3%
  • GO
    GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PUBLIC THEATER NY FOR
    one grant, 2021 · $44k
  • MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +3%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL QUEENS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
The New Group Inc

The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
New York Theatre Workshop Inc

To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.

Arts & Culture
7
Center for Contemporary Opera

Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…

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8
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
9
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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10
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
York Theatre Company Inc

The mission of The York Theatre Company is fourfold:-1. To be a birthplace for new, literate, intimate musicals, and a place where underappreciated musical gems from the past are rediscovered.;-2. To provide support for the creators of new…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc; the most unlike its peers is The South Carolina Historical Society. 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

75 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. 75 of the 95 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/75
Grantees still filing
50/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $273,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INCGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INCTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $192,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER T…NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $123,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $122,200 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $122,200 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INCMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $118,700 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association IncNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureNew DramatistsInc: $78,200 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $78,200 · Arts & CultureTEATRO GRATTACIELO INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $72,200 · Arts & Culture+32 more: $309,000 · Arts & Culture+32 moreMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $695,000 · OtherMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INCBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $123,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $95,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATER INC: $88,000 · OtherGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATER INCAMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC: $85,000 · OtherLYRIC THEATER: $66,200 · Other+28 more: $466,400 · Other+28 moreNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $105,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNI…DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $105,000 · HealthDEBORAH HOSPITAL…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $95,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $70,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSP…LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARC…BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · HealthBONE MARROW & CA…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $45,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYT…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $75,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $22,700 · EducationKEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationMICHAEL MAGRO FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAbraham In Motion Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesTwo Chairs Inc: $7,500 · International
Arts & Culture$2,163,700Other$1,618,600Health$665,000Education$102,700Philanthropy$30,000Human Services$7,500International$7,500

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 budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $695,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $273,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $210,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $192,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $123,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $123,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $122,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $122,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $118,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC: $85,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $78,200 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $78,200 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTEATRO GRATTACIELO INC: $75,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $72,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSPANISH THEATRE REPERTORY COMPANY LTD: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHAEL MAGRO FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $22,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAXTON-HEPBURN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANCER HOPE NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBraata Productions Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDOVA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAbraham In Motion Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARS NOVA THEATER I INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTwo Chairs Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% 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 Howard Gilman Fou…The Shubert Foundatio…The Hyde and Watson F…Alliance of Resident …The Andrew W Mellon F…Jewish Communal FundThe Harkness Foundati…The Aaron Copland Fun…The Ford FoundationThe Lucille Lortel Fo…The Fan Fox and Lesli…Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY43.4× affinity19 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 Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Ford Foundation · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc

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 The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Mem Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Mem Fd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 95 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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