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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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$20MEducation$143kCrime & Legal$65kHealth$8kMembership Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k72 grants · $280k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.5M
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION$3,488,320
EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE$60,000
SENIOR MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION$56,000
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE$25,000
LONG WHARF THEATRE$15,000
BARD COLLEGE$15,000
GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION$15,000
HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY$15,000
GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION$15,000
FOUNDATION FOR DIVERSITY IN THE ART$10,000
VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE$10,000
YALE REPERTORY THEATRE$10,000
NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM$10,000
PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE$7,500
NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP$7,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BARD COLLEGE: $15k → 9%LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $8.9M → 17%PREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC: $14k → 28%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $65k → 9%HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY: $20k → 11%YALE REPERTORY THEATRE: $19k → 12%BARD COLLEGE: $15k → 9%INDIE THEATER FUND: $25k → 13%LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $3.5M → 17%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $30k → 9%HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY: $15k → 11%CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%BARD COLLEGE: $15k → 9%LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $2.3M → 17%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 9%HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY: $15k → 11%YALE REPERTORY THEATRE: $15k → 12%INDIESPACE INC: $15k → 13%WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 9%HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY: $15k → 11%LONG WHARF THEATRE: $15k → 12%WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 9%HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY: $15k → 11%WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 9%LONG WHARF THEATRE: $15k → 12%LONG WHARF THEATRE: $15k → 12%LONG WHARF THEATRE: $15k → 12%LONG WHARF THEATRE: $15k → 12%GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $848k → 17%LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $723k → 17%EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE: $60k → 17%SENIOR MUSICIANS: $57k → 17%SENIOR MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION: $56k → 17%SENIOR MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION: $56k → 17%SENIOR MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION: $56k → 17%THE NEW GROUP: $36k → 17%DRAMATISTS GUILD FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%DRAMATISTS GUILD FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM: $15k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 93 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
13

Total granted

$21M
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalMembership BenefitEducationHealthOther
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

  • LL
    LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +393% · 92% of their budget
  • HS
    HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +75%
  • TG
    THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • OG
    OPERATING GRANT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2017 · $220k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $57k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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2
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
3
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
4
The American Playwriting Foundation
—
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
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Nicus Spoon Inc

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

Arts & Culture
8
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
9
White Horse Theater Company

Producing & developing American plays.

—
10
Lively Productions

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

Arts & Culture
11
The Royal National Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
12
P & J Theater Works
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 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.
04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
65/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $17,844,929 · Arts & CultureLUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC+73 more: $1,897,647 · Arts & Culture+73 moreOPERATING GRANT PROGRAM: $220,000 · OtherSENIOR MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION: $168,000 · OtherEUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE: $85,000 · OtherTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 · OtherYALE REPERTORY THEATRE: $74,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $57,000 · OtherMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY: $40,500 · OtherNational Asian American Theatre Company: $37,500 · OtherCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $36,500 · OtherTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $36,500 · Other+20 more: $244,000 · OtherBARD COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP: $14,500 · HealthTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,000 · Membership Benefit
Arts & Culture$19,742,576Other$1,077,000Education$65,000Crime & Legal$60,000Health$14,500Membership Benefit$2,000

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 budgetLUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $17,844,929 over 6y, 92% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $95,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $65,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $46,147 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FLEA THEATER INC: $44,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $41,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSPANISH THEATRE REPERTORY COMPANY LTD: $40,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY: $40,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $40,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION: $40,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $40,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $37,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNational Asian American Theatre Company: $37,500 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $36,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $36,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lit Fund: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetINDIESPACE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS: $26,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetRATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD: $26,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $26,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ARTS RELATIONS INC: $26,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPAGE SEVENTY-THREE PRODUCTIONS INC: $25,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $25,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC: $19,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARS NOVA THEATER I INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗
  • Who funds PREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH THEATRE REPERTORY COMPANY LTD ↗
  • Who funds MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds National Asian American Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds VINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds The Lit Fund ↗
  • Who funds INDIESPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS ↗
  • Who funds RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM STAGE 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 Howard Gilman Fou…The Shubert Foundatio…Axe-Houghton Foundati…The Andrew W Mellon F…Alliance of Resident …Booth Ferris Foundati…The Hyde and Watson F…The Fan Fox and Lesli…The Ford FoundationThe Tow Foundation IncHispanic Federation I…Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY124.9× affinity61 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 · 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

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 Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lucille Lortel 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 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
33report 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.
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How do I get to The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lucille Lortel 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 108 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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