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The Roy Cockrum Foundation at a glance

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The Roy Cockrum Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14MEducation$600kMembership Benefit$100k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$550,400
Median grant
4
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY$800,000
ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE$700,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC$550,400
OLD GLOBE THEATRE$526,300
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC$450,000
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC$339,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROVINCETOWN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 8%GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $788k → 11%BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE: $64k → 14%PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $60k → 22%A NOISE WITHIN: $50k → 14%FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30k → 9%ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $800k → 17%ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $700k → 20%MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $771k → 14%ASOLO THEATER INC: $196k → 10%ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC: $1.1M → 15%FLYING ANVIL THEATRE: $75k → 12%ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $1.5M → 14%RICHMOND TRIANGLE PLAYERS: $50k → 9%ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $339k → 8%ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $120k → 15%PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $25k → 22%HIGHWAYS INC: $75k → 14%WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1.1M → 17%ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE: $250k → 20%MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $354k → 14%BIG EARS FESTIVAL: $250k → 12%ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $120k → 15%HIGHWAYS INC: $46k → 14%LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $250k → 17%MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $110k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $550k → 12%NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $150k → 17%SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $500k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $100k → 17%HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND ART LTD: $850k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $450k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $450k → 17%PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $200k → 17%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

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 7 repeat orgs$9.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
21

Total granted

$5.4M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationMembership BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OG
    OLD GLOBE THEATRE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +101%
  • MT
    MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $900k · revenue +53%
  • HI
    HIGHWAYS INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $121k · revenue +75% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • CT
    CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +18%
  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue +185%
  • AA
    ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +54%
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
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
2
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
4
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
5
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
7
Bow Street Theatre Trust
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8
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture
9
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc

OUR MISSION - Roundabout celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future. OUR WORK - We produce familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals…

Arts & Culture
10
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
11
Roots and All Theatre Ensemble
Arts & Culture
12
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy 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

30 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. 30 of the 31 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLD GLOBE THEATRE: $1,848,800 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRECHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INCMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $1,235,572 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DCWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,138,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INCST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $950,000 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INCMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $900,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $850,000 · Arts & CultureHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art CenterATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $800,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC THEATER COMPANYGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $788,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATIONSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $2,075,325 · Arts & Culture+14 moreYALE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF DRAMA: $538,023 · OtherFLYING ANVIL THEATRE: $75,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $550,400 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $100,000 · Membership BenefitTHE PROVINCETOWN THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$13,635,697Other$613,023Education$600,400Membership Benefit$100,000Philanthropy$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $1,848,800 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $1,235,572 over 2y, 25% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,138,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC: $1,050,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $950,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $900,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $850,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $800,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $788,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $550,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $339,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBIG EARS FESTIVAL: $250,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $240,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $196,142 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHIGHWAYS INC: $121,400 over 2y, 33% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $85,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetFLYING ANVIL THEATRE: $75,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetBLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC: $63,783 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetRichmond Triangle Players Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetA Noise Within: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROVINCETOWN THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Shubert Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…Arts Midwest Incorpor…New England Foundatio…Jkw Foundation Tr Ua …Booth Ferris Foundati…The Fan Fox and Lesli…Doris Duke Charitable…The Ford FoundationIbm International Fou…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Shubert Foundation IncNY29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Arts Midwest Incorporated · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597 · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Roy Cockrum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roy Cockrum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 31 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.

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