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The National Black Theatre Workshop
The National Black Theatre Workshop Incorporated was incorporated in October 1968 as a cultural and educational institution.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $225,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $230,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Heritage Theatre Group | $37,000 |
| The Negro Ensemble Company | $25,000 |
| New Federal Theatre | $25,000 |
| Hip-Hop Theater Festival Inc | $20,000 |
| Creative Ammo Inc | $20,000 |
| Universal Temple of the Arts | $20,000 |
| viBe Theater Experience | $20,000 |
| Bronx River Art Center Inc | $15,000 |
| Thalia Spanish Theatre | $15,000 |
| Nia Theatrical Production | $15,000 |
| International Arts Relations | $13,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Cultural and educational performances
Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.
Titan theatre company is committed to breathing new life and clarity into classical works of theatre, exploring new and contemporary language plays, and delivering adventurous and visceral theatrical experiences for our audiences and…
Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.
Develop recognition of international theater
Developing and fostering new american plays
We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Heritage Theatre Group and the most unlike its peers is Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 NEW HERITAGE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds NEW FEDERAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds VIBE THEATER EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSAL TEMPLE OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE AMMO INC ↗
- Who funds NIA THEATRICAL PRODUCTION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX RIVER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THALIA SPANISH THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ARTS RELATIONS 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.
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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 National Black Theatre Workshop 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.
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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