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The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28M
Granted FY2024still arriving
392
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$177MEducation$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MMembership Benefit$995kHealth$994kInternational$768kRecreation & Sports$732kOther$0
02FY2024 · 392 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k84 grants · $284k
  • $10k–50k124 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k159 grants · $16M
  • $250k+25 grants · $8.5M
$35,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$630M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC$750,000
AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ALLIANCE OF NEW YORK INC (DBA BELONGO)$605,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (DBA THE PUBLIC THEATER)$450,000
ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC$375,000
DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC (DBA DANCENYC)$360,000
ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRESNEW YORK INC$360,000
CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC$360,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC$350,000
BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC$325,000
MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC$300,000
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY$300,000
VISUAL ARTS RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER RELATING TO THE CARIBBEAN INC (DBA$300,000
LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC$300,000
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC$300,000
JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC$300,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAITI CULTURAL EXCHANGE: $70k → 20%ABRAHAMINMOTION INC: $400k → 17%ABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $200k → 17%ABRAHAMINMOTION INC: $125k → 17%ABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $100k → 17%ABRAHAMINMOTION INC: $50k → 17%ABRAHAMINMOTION INC: $50k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLMENT: $80k → 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

AK
ME
VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172M · 488 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

488 repeat relationships: 244 still active in FY2024, 244 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

488
324

Total granted

$172M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+9%

Still filing today

81%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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 CITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +9%
  • LM
    LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +8%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRESNEW YORK INC (DBA ARTNY)
    one grant, 2023 · $635k
  • JT
    JOYCE THEATER THE
    one grant, 2023 · $502k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc

The perelman performing arts center creates connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts in our flexible intimate spaces, inviting…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
5
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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6
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
7
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Nicus Spoon Inc

The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.

Arts & Culture
9
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
10
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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11
Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture
12
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

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 Orlando Philharmonic. 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

606 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. 606 of the 892 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.

36
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
153
Early backer (in before they grew)
596/606
Grantees still filing
387/606
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+144 more: $116,930,915 · Arts & Culture+144 moreBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $4,675,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUS…BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $1,562,500 · OtherHARLEM STAGE INC: $1,310,300 · OtherFLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS (DBA FLUSHING TOWN HALL): $1,235,000 · Other+45 more: $22,584,750 · Other+45 moreTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $995,000 · Membership BenefitAbraham In Motion Inc: $925,300 · Human ServicesYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $400,000 · HealthTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP: $342,500 · HealthBedlam Inc: $374,000 · PhilanthropyA BETTER JAMAICA INC: $362,000 · PhilanthropyCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $565,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$116,930,915Other$31,367,550Membership Benefit$995,000Human Services$925,300Health$742,500Philanthropy$736,000Recreation & Sports$565,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $4,675,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC: $2,662,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $2,590,770 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $2,545,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $2,525,300 over 7y, 12% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,175,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $2,155,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC: $2,100,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC: $2,007,500 over 6y, 54% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,990,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,766,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $1,755,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $1,740,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $1,680,250 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $1,625,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $1,617,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,595,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $1,562,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED: $1,520,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $1,515,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC: $1,500,300 over 7y, 11% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,500,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $1,475,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $1,425,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $1,405,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $1,320,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC: $1,310,300 over 4y, 16% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,275,345 over 3y, 28% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $1,208,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC: $1,200,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $1,180,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetVisual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating: $1,155,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetVINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC: $1,145,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $1,125,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,125,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC: $1,101,250 over 7y, 16% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $1,028,750 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetPREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC: $1,025,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $1,010,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $1,010,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNEW MUSIC USA INC: $1,008,750 over 7y, 15% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $995,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $961,250 over 5y, 17% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $950,300 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC: $926,250 over 5y, 19% of budgetAbraham In Motion Inc: $925,300 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetINDIESPACE INC: $913,500 over 5y, 33% 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.

  • Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds Visual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating ↗
  • Who funds VINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
  • Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds PREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC ↗

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 Fan Fox and Lesli…The Shubert Foundatio…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Lucille Lortel Fo…The Harkness Foundati…Mid Atlantic Arts IncMertz Gilmore Foundat…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Hyde and Watson F…Axe-Houghton Foundati…Alliance of Resident …Emma a Sheafer Charit…
The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation IncNY147.9× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006

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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • Mid Atlantic Arts Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
84report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc 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 892 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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