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The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$255
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$255
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$255
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $400 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
MA
NV
CT
AZ
DC
GA
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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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7k · 4 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$7k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TP
    The Puppeteers of America Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +78%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1k · revenue +50%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $147 · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • VP
    VARIOUS PAYPAL DONATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • SL
    SCOTT LAND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • PS
    PUPPET SHOWPLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +96%
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
Puppet Co

The puppet co was established to create puppet theatre, especially for children and family audiences, as a synthesis of the visual and performing arts; through interpretive programs including classes, demonstrations, and exhibits, to…

Arts & Culture
2
Mesner Puppet Theater

The organization's mission is to inspire play and cultivate connections through puppetry.

Arts & Culture
3
Detroit Puppet Company

Dpc uses awe-inspiring puppetry as a vehicle for a better tomorrow. dpc collaborates with the local commmunity to create inclusive spaces that bring together detroit and hamtramck residents with artists from around the country. the works…

Arts & Culture
4
Great Arizona Puppet Theater Inc

To educate through the art of puppetry.

Arts & Culture
5
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival

Creating innovative puppetry performances utilizing musical, literary, and puppetry traditions.

Arts & Culture
6
Pipeline Theatre Company Inc

Vision: We believe that an unbridled imagination is a force of magic with the power to provoke a more courageous and compassionate world.Mission: Pipeline makes theater of the imagination. Our company thrives on adventure and believes no…

Arts & Culture
7
Carter Family Puppet Theater

To promote the art of puppetry.

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8
Puppetart

To explore a variety of cultures and foster an appreciation of the wisdom of traditions, the beauty of spirit and art of diverse communities through puppet performances, exhibits and classes.

Arts & Culture
9
Pangea World Theater

Pangea World Theater strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices of solidarity, sustainability and equity.

Arts & Culture
10
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
11
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
12
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Puppet Showplace Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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

11 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. 11 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER ARIZONA PUPPUT THEATER: $3,302 · OtherGREATER ARIZONA PUPPUT THEATERVARIOUS PAYPAL DONATIONS: $2,519 · OtherVARIOUS PAYPAL DONATIONSSCOTT LAND SCHOOL: $2,070 · OtherSCOTT LAND SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHWEST PUPPET CENTER: $500 · Other+7 more: $1,068 · Other+7 moreThe Puppeteers of America Inc: $2,750 · Arts & CultureThe Puppeteers of America IncPUPPET SHOWPLACE INC: $1,550 · Arts & CulturePUPPET SHOWPLACE INCCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC: $1,287 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINCEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $700 · Arts & CultureEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTE…+1 more: $21 · Arts & CultureNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,729 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FO…OPEN HEART MAGIC: $400 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $147 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $20 · HealthLake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic Gardens: $100 · Environment
Other$10,459Arts & Culture$6,308Public Safety & Disaster$1,729Human Services$400Health$167Environment$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,729 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Found…The Jim Henson Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marc Dunworth Foundation for the Performing Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Puppet Showplace Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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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