· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL | $300,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $300,000 |
| THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCE | $200,000 |
| TECTONIC THEATRE PROJECT | $200,000 |
| PEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP | $150,000 |
| BALLET HISPANICO | $125,000 |
| JOSHUA TREE FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| ABRAHAM IN MOTION | $120,000 |
| BEDLAM THEATER | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | $100,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- HRHUDSON RIVER PARK TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $50k
- PWParkinsons Wellness Foundationone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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…
How this is measured
75 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. 75 of the 118 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 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 HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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