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The Shs 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $575k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $2,000,000 |
| PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY | $320,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL | $300,000 |
| THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCE | $200,000 |
| TECTONIC THEATRE PROJECT | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP | $150,000 |
| PEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC | $150,000 |
| BALLET HISPANICO | $125,000 |
| ABRAHAM IN MOTION | $120,000 |
| JOSHUA TREE FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| RATTLESTICK PLAYRIGHT THEATER | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BEDLAM THEATER | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 14 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k 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
- HVHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC5× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +330%
- BABROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +1%
- TTTectonic Theater Project Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- TFTHE FIELD INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- PWParkinsons Wellness Foundationone grant, 2024 · $50k
- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +31%
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
Develop recognition of international theater
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Israeli Film & Tv Producers Association. 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 118 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 HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Tectonic Theater Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COCOON THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Abraham In Motion Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR AVILES TYPICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · The Ford Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Jerome Robbins 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 Shs 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company — 11% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% 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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