· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $397k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASTERWORKS THEATER COMPANY INC | $63,000 |
| PIONEER SCHOOL OF DRAMA INC | $25,000 |
| HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| THE LEFFELL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY HEALTH & HOSPITALS CORPORATION | $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 |
| CHURCH OF ST THOMAS MORE - ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF OUR LADY | $12,000 |
| THE HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $12,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST | $11,500 |
| SHIAWASSEE ARTS CENTER | $11,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
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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.
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How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 107 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nancy Friday Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nancy Friday Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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