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The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts

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.

$255
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$255
Largest grant, FY2024
$255
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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 arriving1$255100%
FY20237$3k86%
FY20228$5k63%
FY20214$2k50%
FY20206$6k100%
FY20191$1kn/a
76% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$10kEducation$2kPhilanthropy$2kHealth$868Environment$100Human Services$20Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MA
NV
CT
AZ
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Puppeteers of America Inc: $2,750 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPuppet Showplace Inc: $1,550 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Puppetry Artsinc: $1,287 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Heart Magic: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $147 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic Gardens: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnima USA Inc: $70 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScoundrel and Scamp Theatre Inc: $21 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $20 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 10.

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 Jane Henson FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jane Henson Foundation · The Jim Henson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts

How much does The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts give?
The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts reported 1 grants totaling $255 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Education (11%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Puppeteers of America Inc ($3k), Puppet Showplace Inc ($2k), Center for Puppetry Artsinc ($1k).
Does The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jane Henson Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts based?
The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts is based in IL.

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 22 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.

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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