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The Nancy Friday Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $397k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASTERWORKS THEATER COMPANY INC | $63,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER | $25,000 |
| PIONEER SCHOOL OF DRAMA INC | $25,000 |
| HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY HEALTH & HOSPITALS CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| THE LEFFELL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE OPEN EYE | $20,000 |
| PEN AMERICA | $20,000 |
| WILDAID | $16,000 |
| GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (FIDF) | $14,000 |
| THE HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $12,000 |
| CHURCH OF ST THOMAS MORE - ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF OUR LADY | $12,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST | $11,500 |
| SHIAWASSEE ARTS CENTER | $11,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PSPIONEER SCHOOL OF DRAMA6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +110%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE OPEN EYE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +75%
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GWGIRLS WRITE NOW INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +26%
- SOSpirit of America Worldwideone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -49%
- GJGURWIN JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
At Atlantic, our aim is singular: to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. Across our work, we are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show…
To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.
The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…
Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…
To present, in a rotating repertory, the finest latin american, spanish, and latino usa theatre and to serve as a catalyst for cultural exchange between spanish and english speaking americans.
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fort Lauderdale Children's Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Financial Life Cycle Education Corp. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
77 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. 77 of the 107 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PIONEER SCHOOL OF DRAMA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE OPEN EYE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGETOWN CONSERVATORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANK LTD ↗
- Who funds AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE MAY STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC ↗
- Who funds THEATER MITU INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
- Who funds POETS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL TEES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation
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 Nancy Friday Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape May Stage Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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