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The Map Fund Inc

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

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$8.7MEducation$235kPhilanthropy$175kYouth Development$143kCivil Rights$116kCommunity Improvement$114kScience & Tech$105kHuman Services$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 58 grants below total $1,765,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,908,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,143,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$30,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brooklyn Arts Exchange$60,000
Craigardan Inc$30,000
Theater Latt Da$30,000
TALILOMARFILMUSIC LLC$30,000
Ensemble Robot Inc$30,000
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Northwest$30,000
ANIKAYAAkhra Inc$30,000
Theatre Novi Most$30,000
AXIS Dance Company$30,000
VisionIntoArt Presents Inc$30,000
Bodhi Tree Concerts$30,000
American Academy of Arts and Letters$30,000
Experimental Sound Studio$30,000
CARNE VIVA DANCE THEATRE$30,000
Oye Group Inc$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLOBALFEST INC: $44k → 20%ABRONS ARTS CENTER: $13k → 17%ABRONS ARTS CENTER: $12k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 49 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
184

Total granted

$3.7M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

98%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $615k · revenue +71%
  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $176k · revenue +154%
  • IF
    Intersection for the Arts
    5× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TANK LTD
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue -3%
  • TY
    THE YES LAB INC
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue -69%
  • TV
    TEATRO VISION
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
2
Tigerlion Arts
Arts & Culture
3
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

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4
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
5
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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6
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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7
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
8
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
9
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
10
Ghost Road Company

The Ghost Road Company develops original performance pieces employing Ensemble-Devising and collaborative creation techniques creating experimental theatrical works that are highly physical visceral and visual The companys work emphasizes…

Arts & Culture
11
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
12
Roots and All Theatre Ensemble
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theater Et Al Inc Dba the Chocolate Factory Theater and the most unlike its peers is Fathomers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%8/282
the rest of the field
13%
240,388/1,819,283

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.

04the grantee network

238 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. 238 of the 282 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
65
Early backer (in before they grew)
229/238
Grantees still filing
152/238
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $615,069 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC+130 more — $5,479,036 · Arts & Culture+130 moreTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $175,899 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE IN…ROSY SIMAS DANSE INC — $61,469 · Other+49 more — $1,538,511 · Other+49 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE — $43,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY — $43,000 · EducationOther Minds — $30,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationCraigardan Inc — $30,000 · EducationTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $110,830 · PhilanthropyZACCHO SF — $68,798 · PhilanthropyARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA — $30,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsDestiny Arts Center — $45,000 · Recreation & SportsAPI Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center — $43,166 · Recreation & SportsLOTUS BLOOM — $43,798 · Youth DevelopmentAlbany Park Theater Project — $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $38,346 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBALFEST INC — $43,798 · Human ServicesNARRATIVE ARTS — $38,059 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $25,342 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$6,094,105Other$1,775,879Education$221,000Philanthropy$209,628Recreation & Sports$148,166Youth Development$124,644Human Services$107,199

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $110,830 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetJESS CURTISGRAVITY INC — $68,798 over 2y, 14% of budgetZACCHO SF — $68,798 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCONTRA-TIEMPO — $68,798 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetPUERTO RICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE INC — $67,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetRAGAMALA DANCE — $67,500 over 3y, 4.0% 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 budgetLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS — $60,000 over 2y, 7.7% 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 budgetTHE YES LAB INC — $45,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTEATRO VISION — $45,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDestiny Arts Center — $45,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFIRST VOICE INC — $45,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY 2010 COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM — $45,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetHALEAKALA INC — $43,798 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGLOBALFEST INC — $43,798 over 1y, 12% of budgetLOTUS BLOOM — $43,798 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKronos Performing Arts Association — $43,798 over 1y, 1.4% 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 budget
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.

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.

New England Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Andrew W Mellon F…New Music USA IncThe Howard Gilman Fou…The Shubert Foundatio…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…The Zellerbach Family…National Performance …Doris Duke Charitable…Jerome Foundation Inc
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 →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New Music USA Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · National Performance Network Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Jerome Foundation 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 Map Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Ensemble Robot Incorporated — 20% of income from government
  • Anikaya Akhra Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
  • Passage Theatre Company Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Guerilla Opera Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boston Dance Theater — 4% of income from government
  • Third Angle New Music Ensemble — 3% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jean Appolon Expressions Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 282 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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