· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k22 grants · $550k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MACDOWELL COLONY | $140,000 |
| GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC | $60,000 |
| VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN QUEENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $25,000 |
| BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- MAMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $695k · revenue +118%
- TFTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $273k · revenue +3%
- TVTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER5× · 2020–2025 · $192k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- TPTHE PUBLIC THEATER NY FORone grant, 2021 · $44k
MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +3%- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL QUEENSone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
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…
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…
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.
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…
To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.
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…
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.
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.…
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,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
75 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. 75 of the 95 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 MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New DramatistsInc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TEATRO GRATTACIELO INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH THEATRE REPERTORY COMPANY LTD ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL MAGRO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION 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 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
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 The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Mem Fd 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.
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
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.