· Private foundation
The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k72 grants · $280k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION | $3,488,320 |
| EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE | $60,000 |
| SENIOR MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION | $56,000 |
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| LONG WHARF THEATRE | $15,000 |
| GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DIVERSITY IN THE ART | $10,000 |
| YALE REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM | $10,000 |
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| THE FLEA THEATER | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE COM | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LLLUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +393% · 92% of their budget
- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC6× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +75%
- TGTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- OGOPERATING GRANT PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $220k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $57k
- QTQUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -82%
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.
Develop recognition of international theater
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…
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.
Producing & developing American plays.
Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation Inc. 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 37 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 89% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 108 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 LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLEA THEATER INC ↗
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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 · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Tow Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation 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 Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc 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.
- Thrown Stone Theatre Company — 13% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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