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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. The purpose of the Organization is to create a cultural hub for community-based artists; to offer through its programs, namely Theatre Arts, Entrepreneurial Arts and Communication Arts, activities for cultural…

$230k
Granted FY2020
11
Itemized grants FY2020
11
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$225k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$37,000
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$22M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The National Black Theatre Workshop by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Heritage Theatre Group$37,00016%
New Federal Theatre Inc$25,00018%
Negro Ensemble Company Inc$25,000117%
Vibe Theater Experience Inc$20,00014%
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS$20,00014%
Universal Temple of the Arts Inc$20,00018%
Creative Ammo Inc$20,0001n/a
Nia Theatrical Production Company Inc$15,000110%
The Bronx River Arts Center Inc$15,00012%
Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc$15,00013%
International Arts Relations Inc$13,00013%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The National Black Theatre Workshop supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Heritage Theatre Group: $37,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNew Federal Theatre Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetNegro Ensemble Company Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetVibe Theater Experience Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUniversal Temple of the Arts Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetNia Theatrical Production Company Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetThe Bronx River Arts Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThalia Spanish Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetInternational Arts Relations Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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 Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · 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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How do I get to The National Black Theatre Workshop?

Find your warmest path to The National Black Theatre Workshop through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The National Black Theatre Workshop

How much does The National Black Theatre Workshop give?
The National Black Theatre Workshop reported 11 itemized grants totaling $225,000, out of $230,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does The National Black Theatre Workshop fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Human Services (9%).
Who are The National Black Theatre Workshop's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: New Heritage Theatre Group ($37k), New Federal Theatre Inc ($25k), Negro Ensemble Company Inc ($25k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The National Black Theatre Workshop?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Shubert Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The National Black Theatre Workshop based?
The National Black Theatre Workshop is based in NY.

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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