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The Map Fund Inc

To support innovation and cross-cultural exploration in new works of live performance.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
58
Itemized grants FY2024
59
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 76
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Map Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving58$1.8M79%
FY202359$1.9M75%
FY202147$1.3M62%
FY202076$1.1M78%
FY201938$1.3M89%
FY201836$1.3M89%
FY201735$1.2Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$8.7MEducation$235kPhilanthropy$175kYouth Development$143kCivil Rights$116kCommunity Improvement$114kScience & Tech$105kHuman Services$69kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
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NY
MA
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OH
PA
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CO
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 279 grantees
All grantees of The Map Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fractured Atlas Inc$615,06961%
The Performance Zone Inc$175,89942%
Intersection for the Arts$138,55151%
Dancers Group$128,41931%
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc$115,60933%
Theater Labrador Inc dba New Georges$110,00048%
New York Live Arts Inc$108,00021%
Ensemble Robot Incorporated$93,3463100%
The Tank Ltd$90,00015%
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle$85,50025%
Foundation for Independent Artists Inc$82,75041%
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts$82,14420%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$78,45030%
Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre Inc$75,75032%
Teada Productions$73,798220%
Cornerstone Theater Company$72,00024%
Zaccho Sf$68,79828%
Contra-Tiempo$68,79828%
Jess Curtisgravity Inc$68,798214%
Ragamala Dance$67,50034%
Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance Inc$67,500312%
National Performance Network Inc$66,91922%
Detroit Puppet Company$61,500216%
Rosy Simas Danse Inc$61,469312%
Allison Orr Dance Inc$60,04828%
Partnership for Providence Parks$60,00028%
Lookingglass Theatre Company$60,00021%
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center$58,79821%
AXIS Dance Company$55,00026%
Springboard for the Arts$52,19121%
Theater Mitu Inc$50,84625%
Everett$50,84629%
El Teatro Campesino$48,92829%
Cafa-Third Horizon Inc$45,0001n/a
Teatro Vision$45,00019%
Illinois Valley 2010 Community Response Team$45,00019%
En Garde Arts Inc$45,00019%
Destiny Arts Center$45,00012%
First Voice Inc$45,000113%
Duke University$45,00010%
Taikoarts Midwest$45,0001n/a
The Yes Lab Inc$45,00016%
University of Texas at El Paso$45,0001n/a
Lotus Bloom$43,79813%
TERRA MOTO INC Art At Work$43,7981n/a
Haleakala Inc$43,79812%
Kronos Performing Arts Association$43,79811%
Pat Graney Company$43,7981n/a
Globalfest Inc$43,798112%
Future West Inc$43,796119%
Culture Push Inc$43,200224%
API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center$43,16615%
St Catherine University$43,00010%
Emerson College$43,00010%
Fiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company$42,50022%
Circo Zero$42,500212%
Ananya Dance Theatre$42,50026%
Yaa Samar Dance Theatre$42,500210%
Albany Park Theater Project$42,50021%
Water in the Desert Inc$40,919128%
The Bushwick Starr Inc$40,76722%
Zeitgeist$38,750212%
Headlong Dance Theater Inc$38,62728%
Alarm Will Sound Inc$38,3461n/a
U B W Inc A/K/A Urban Bush Women Inc$38,34612%
Pai Foundation$38,34615%
Youth Speaks Inc$38,34611%
Old Town School of Folk Music$38,30010%
Ministry of Maat$38,163113%
Narrative Arts$38,05917%
International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation Inc$37,50021%
Agitarte Inc$37,50022%
Latsky Dance Inc$37,500210%
Spiderwoman Theatre Workshop Inc$37,500230%
Mountain Time Arts$37,50028%
Noor Theatre Inc$36,578138%
Allied Media Projects Inc$36,12610%
Painted Bride Art Center Inc$36,02615%
Calarts Center for New Performance$34,0001n/a
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc$33,60011%
Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Inc$33,38025%
Yerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival$31,86713%
Dances for a Variable Population Inc$31,76726%
Community Musicworks$31,47412%
ArtSpot Productions Inc$31,1331n/a
Omaha Theater Company$30,99111%
Words Beats and Life Inc$30,74917%
Revival Arts Consulting LLC$30,0001n/a
Creative Action Unlimited Inc$30,000161%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$30,00010%
Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc$30,00011%
Hero Theatre Inc$30,000114%
Shabach Enterprise$30,0001n/a
Mixed Blood Woman Projects$30,0001n/a
Los Angeles Nomadic Division$30,00013%
Ars Nova Theater I Inc$30,00011%
Pones Inc$30,000116%
Wills Players$30,0001n/a
Talilomarfilmusic LLC$30,0001n/a
Mosaic Theater Company of DC$30,00011%
Anikaya Akhra Inc$30,000116%
Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation$30,00010%
The Civilians Inc$30,00014%
Bramble Nfp$30,000136%
Yarnwire Inc$30,00016%
Urban Theater Chicago Nfp$30,00019%
Experimental Sound Studio$30,00014%
Mira Theatre Guild$30,000120%
American Academy of Arts and Letters$30,00010%
The Ole Education Fund$30,00011%
Carne Viva Dance Theatre$30,0001n/a
Kinesis Project Inc$30,0001n/a
Ulysses$30,0001n/a
Secret to Life Inc$30,0001n/a
Kulintang Arts Inc$30,00016%
World Arts West$30,00015%
Tonality$30,00017%
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Northwest$30,0001n/a
Oye Group Inc$30,00018%
Other Minds$30,00013%
Vision Into Arts Presents Inc$30,00012%
Gilloury Institute$30,00015%
Young One Incorporated$30,0001n/a
Deaf West Theatre Company Inc$30,00015%
Nava Dance Theatre$30,000117%
People's Theatre Project Inc$30,00011%
Flamencoysol LLC$30,0001n/a
The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc$30,00018%
Rebecca Kwan$30,0001n/a
Street Symphony Project Inc$30,00018%
Yara Arts Group$30,000120%
Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts$30,000131%
Bodhi Tree Concerts$30,0001n/a
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company$30,00014%
Best Practices Policy Project Inc$30,000115%
Theater Latte Da$30,00011%
Vida Magica Love LLC$30,0001n/a
Naks Naman Corporation$30,0001n/a
4n4k4LLC$30,0001n/a
Gorno LLC$30,0001n/a
Kamara Thomas Music Inc$30,0001n/a
Creative Time Inc$30,00012%
Art of the Matter Performance Foundation$30,000120%
Una Inc$30,000127%
Inkboat Inc$30,000136%
The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University$30,00010%
Artcouncil Inc Dba Artadia$30,00012%
Project Bandaloop$30,00012%
Black Label Movement$30,000114%
Hidden Voices$30,000130%
Theatre Novi Most$30,000136%
Iranian Female Composers Association$30,0001n/a
Guerilla Opera Inc$30,000111%
Heartache and Paint LLC$30,0001n/a
The Theater Offensive Inc$30,00011%
Culture Flow Projects$30,000124%
ProyectoTEATRO$30,0001n/a
Flux Innovations LLC$30,0001n/a
Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center$30,00011%
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc$30,00012%
Pano Pra Manga Arts Inc$30,0001n/a
Flux Theatre Ensemble Inc$30,000143%
Northwest Arkansas Community Creative Center$30,00014%
Boston Dance Theater$30,000112%
Exapno New Music Community Center Inc$30,0001n/a
Civic Ensemble Inc$30,000113%
Honey Pot Performance$30,000120%
Fictional Artists' Contemporary Theatresan Francisco$30,00017%
ARTogether$30,00014%
Teatro del Pueblo Inc$30,00018%
Craigardan Inc$30,00013%
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center Inc$30,00011%
Pioneers Go East Collective Inc$30,000111%
Red Eye Collaboration$30,00016%
Human Resources la Inc Hrla$29,843134%
509 Cultural Center$28,93115%
Sozo Impact Inc$27,500116%
Unique Projects Inc$27,46318%
New Ballet Ensemble Inc$27,3661n/a
Geva Theatre Center Inc$27,36010%
Chatterbird$27,0041n/a
Contemporary Arts Center$27,0001n/a
Passage Theatre Company Inc$26,34616%
Allgo$26,279110%
Ignition Arts Inc$26,2501n/a
Los Angeles Poverty Department$25,6281n/a
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts$25,50610%
Henry Street Settlement$25,34220%
Indigenous Arts Institute$25,139121%
Tickle the Sleeping Giant Inc$25,0001n/a
Universes Inc$25,0001n/a
Abre Comino Collective$25,0001n/a
Liz Glynn Studio Inc$25,0001n/a
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$25,00010%
Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers$25,00018%
Beth Morrison Projects Inc$25,0001n/a
Poetic Societies Inc$25,0001n/a
Propagation Project LLC$25,0001n/a
Synchronicity Theatre$25,0001n/a
Epiphany Foundation for the Arts Inc$25,0001n/a
San Francisco Girls Chorus Inc$25,00011%
Dance Iquail Inc$25,000114%
Winesap Music LLC$25,0001n/a
Third Angle New Music Ensemble$25,0001n/a
Silk Road Project Inc$25,00011%
The President and Trustees of Colby College$25,00010%
Sarah Cameron Sunde Studio Inc$25,0001n/a
Lower Bottom Playaz Inc$25,00017%
Unit Souzou LLC$25,0001n/a
Wonder and Invention Inc$25,0001n/a
Creative Legacy Projects LLC$25,0001n/a
NOUVEAU CLASSICAL PROJECT INC aka Isogram Projects$25,0001n/a
Jean Appolon Expressions Inc$25,00019%
Floating Museum NFP$25,0001n/a
Links Hall Inc$24,64916%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$24,2501n/a
Victory Gardens Theater$23,50011%
The Flying Carpet Theater Inc$20,796115%
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society$20,52610%
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc$20,25010%
French Institute - Alliance Francaise$19,93610%
Hattiloo Theatre$18,72512%
Artist's Laboratory Theatre$18,6071n/a
Theater Et Al Inc Dba the Chocolate Factory Theater$18,14713%
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts$17,92110%
American Indian Artists Inc$17,41814%
Pioneer Winter Collective Inc$17,100113%
Northern Lightsmn Inc$16,5151n/a
Artspace Inc$15,62513%
Construction Company TheaterDance Associates Inc$14,7411n/a
The ARTS at Marks Garage$14,000110%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia$14,00010%
Vermont Dance Alliance$13,7501n/a
Viver Brasil Dance Company$13,75015%
Tellin Tales Theatre$13,350112%
Brooklyn Arts Council Inc$13,25010%
Sunday Creek Associates$13,1251n/a
Indigenous Roots$13,00012%
Make Art With Purpose Incorporated$13,000122%
Center for Applied Theater and Active Culture$13,000111%
Johns Hopkins University$12,50010%
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc$12,50010%
Brownbody$12,50018%
Mixed Blood Theatre Company$12,5001n/a
The Z Space Studio$12,50011%
Little Globe Inc$12,50014%
Beth Morrison Projects Inc$12,50011%
Marin Theatre Company$12,50010%
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival$12,50012%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$12,50010%
The New Group Inc$12,50010%
The Arts Club of Chicago$12,50010%
Su Teatro Inc$12,50011%
In Series Inc$12,5001n/a
Vincent Price Art Foundation$12,50012%
Dansology Inc$12,5001n/a
Curious Theatre Company$12,50011%
Synchronicity Performance Group$12,50011%
Vineyard Theatre$12,5001n/a
Fathomers$12,50013%
Blindspot Collective$12,50019%
Bombazo Dance Co$12,500115%
Appalshop Inc$12,50011%
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Inc$12,50012%
Flyaway Productions$12,50016%
CounterPulse$12,50011%
Montalvo Association$12,50010%
Safos Dance Theatre Inc$12,5001n/a
University of Wisconsin$12,5001n/a
Free Street Theater$12,50014%
Salvage Vanguard Theater$12,500112%
Opera Cultura$12,50017%
Bailey's Cafe Inc$12,50018%
Bang on a Can$12,50011%
Imagination Stage Inc$12,50010%
Experiments in Opera$12,5001n/a
Center for New Music San Francisco Inc$12,2231n/a
The Art Institute of Chicago$11,40010%
Fulcrum Arts$5,04010%

Where it is load-bearing

The Map Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $615,069 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Performance Zone Inc: $175,899 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $138,551 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDancers Group: $128,419 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBrooklyn Arts Exchange Inc: $115,609 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTheater Labrador Inc dba New Georges: $110,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetNew York Live Arts Inc: $108,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEnsemble Robot Incorporated: $93,346 over 3y, 100% of budgetThe Tank Ltd: $90,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEarshot Jazz Society of Seattle: $85,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFoundation for Independent Artists Inc: $82,750 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetYerba Buena Center for the Arts: $82,144 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Foundation for the Arts Inc: $78,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetArthur Aviles Typical Theatre Inc: $75,750 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTeada Productions: $73,798 over 2y, 20% of budgetCornerstone Theater Company: $72,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetZaccho Sf: $68,798 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetContra-Tiempo: $68,798 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetJess Curtisgravity Inc: $68,798 over 2y, 14% of budgetRagamala Dance: $67,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPuerto Rican Folkloric Dance Inc: $67,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetNational Performance Network Inc: $66,919 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDetroit Puppet Company: $61,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetRosy Simas Danse Inc: $61,469 over 3y, 12% of budgetAllison Orr Dance Inc: $60,048 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetPartnership for Providence Parks: $60,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetLookingglass Theatre Company: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $58,798 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAXIS Dance Company: $55,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSpringboard for the Arts: $52,191 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTheater Mitu Inc: $50,846 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetEverett: $50,846 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetEl Teatro Campesino: $48,928 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTeatro Vision: $45,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetIllinois Valley 2010 Community Response Team: $45,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetEn Garde Arts Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $45,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFirst Voice Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDuke University: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Yes Lab Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLotus Bloom: $43,798 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHaleakala Inc: $43,798 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKronos Performing Arts Association: $43,798 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGlobalfest Inc: $43,798 over 1y, 12% of budgetFuture West Inc: $43,796 over 1y, 19% of budgetCulture Push Inc: $43,200 over 2y, 24% of budgetAPI Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center: $43,166 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSt Catherine University: $43,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA122.9× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to The Map Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Map Fund 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.

About The Map Fund Inc

How much does The Map Fund Inc give?
The Map Fund Inc reported 58 itemized grants totaling $1,765,000, out of $2,908,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Map Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are The Map Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fractured Atlas Inc ($615k), The Performance Zone Inc ($176k), Intersection for the Arts ($139k).
Does The Map Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Map Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, Mid Atlantic Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
Where is The Map Fund Inc based?
The Map Fund Inc is based in NY.

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 282 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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