How much did THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC reported 652 grants totaling $40,071,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC based?

THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC is based in NY.

THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Private foundation

THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$40M

Granted FY2024

652

Grants

Communities

$371k

Largest

01What you fund

0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Arts & Culture$104MEducation$3.1MHealth$130kCommunity Improvement$125kPhilanthropy$100kInternational$20kPublic Benefit$15kOther$40M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

stagerepertory theatreensemblechicagochildren's theatrecontemporaryplayers

2022

stagerepertory theatreshakespearefestivalchildren's theatreensemblechicago

2023

productions activitiesarts columbischolarstheatre artsplayhouseyale behalftheater

2024

productions activitiesdance productionsarts activitiesscholarship

2025

productions activitiesdance productionsarts activitiesscholarshiptrustees columbiaarts productionsdance activities

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 652 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k396 grants · $10M
$50k–250k229 grants · $22M
$250k+27 grants · $7.7M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$913M

Total assets

Largest grants

FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLSNYC DEPT OF EDUCATION$371,000
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLSNYC DEPT OF EDUCATION$360,000
CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC$350,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$350,000
WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC$325,000
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC$325,000
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC$310,000
SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC$300,000
STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY$300,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$275,000
CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY AND SCHOOL$275,000
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE INC$275,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$275,000
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC$275,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC$275,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 88% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$142M · 646 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

646 repeat relationships — 601 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

646

Total granted

$142M

$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

-13%

Still filing today

80%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

CT
CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +16%
WD
WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +14%
VB
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +30%

Funded once

MC
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
SC
SPELMAN COLLEGE
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
TP
THEATRE PROGRAM THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $285k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Shakespeare Theatre

Shakespeare theatre company creates world-class (see schedule o for continuation)

Arts & Culture

United States Institute for Theatre

To actively connect performing arts design and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialog among practitioners, educators, and students.

Arts & Culture

The Center for International Theatre Development

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio

The mission of the contemporary theatre of ohio is to harness the transformational power of theatre for the current moment to inspire empathy in our community. we are responsive to community needs by producing productions for adults and…

Arts & Culture

Theo Ubique Theatre

The mission of theo ubique theater company is to engage actors and audiences in an intimate and honest conversation with great theatrical works, including musicals, reviews, and dramas in a cabaret setting.

Arts & Culture

Lyric Theatre Company

The mission of lyric theatre company is to produce musicals and other performing arts of professional quality for northern new england.

Arts & Culture

Classical Theatre Company

Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…

Arts & Culture

Cascades Theatrical Company

1) strive to create quality productions and theatrical experiences,2) maintain fiscal responsibility through sound business practices,3) encourage and support creativity, innovation and opportunity and,4) actively cultivate the next…

Arts & Culture

The Beverly Theater Llc

Arts & Culture

Broadway Bound Childrens Theatre

To create exceptional theatrical productions that awaken the very best in children and teens.

Arts & Culture

Unlabeled Theatre Company

Arts & Culture

North Star Theater Company

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Generation Theatre Company and the most unlike its peers is Autry Museum of the American West. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/565

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,000

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.

05the grantee network

563 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

148

Early backer (in before they grew)

560/563

Grantees still filing

388/563

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$104,135,000Other$39,952,000Education$3,140,000Health$130,000Community Improvement$125,000Philanthropy$100,000International$20,000Public Benefit$15,000

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.

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.

The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY135.7× affinity96 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHAKER BRIDGE THEATRE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +58% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 412247821 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHAKER BRIDGE THEATRE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Shubert Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

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The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines