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The Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund Sheldon Bonovitz Trustee
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $236k
- $250k+1 grant · $968k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY | $968,136 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| HEDGEROW THEATRE | $30,000 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTH | $25,000 |
| BALLET X | $22,500 |
| 1812 PRODUCTIONS | $18,000 |
| WHYY | $15,000 |
| ACT II PLAYHOUSE | $15,000 |
| LANTERN THEATER COMPANY | $15,000 |
| INTERACT THEATRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| PHILADANCO | $12,000 |
| WILMA THEATRE | $12,000 |
| CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA'S MURAL ARTS PROGRAM | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of your 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PTPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY6× · 2020–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +65%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +42%- HTHEDGEROW THEATRE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AUARCADIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +55%
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.
To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…
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,…
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.
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
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.
Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…
Signature theatre celebrates playwrights and gives them an artistic home. signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright's body of work, producing several plays by each resident writer and delivering an intimate and immersive…
To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lantern Theater Company and the most unlike its peers is Nichole Canuso Dance Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEDGEROW THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds 1812 PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LANTERN THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ACT II PLAYHOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Dance Company ↗
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE EXILE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PLAYPENN INC ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds AVENUE OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE GARAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Nichole Canuso Dance Company ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
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 William Penn Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Independence Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Lida Foundation · Ludwick Fdn · The Sylvia W and Randle M Kauders Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial 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 Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund Sheldon Bonovitz Trustee 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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