· Private foundation
The Ted Snowdon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE TED SNOWDON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $854k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $645k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER | $80,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $75,000 |
| THE DOE FUND INC | $70,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND | $65,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS | $55,000 |
| BALLET HISPANICO | $50,000 |
| THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE | $50,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL | $50,000 |
| POINT FOUNDATION | $47,000 |
| VINEYARD THEATRE | $46,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS | $45,000 |
| TRANSPORT GROUP | $44,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $583k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $450k · revenue +187%
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK8× · 2018–2025 · $385k · revenue +88%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $370k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- HFHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +45%
- GLGay Lesbian Victory Instituteone grant, 2018 · $30k
- SPSHOTGUN PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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…
The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…
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…
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
To create original projects involving theater, cabaret and music, taking them from investigations into real life.
The mission of theater latte' da is to create new connections between story, music, artist and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York Theatre Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shotgun Productions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 53 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 LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds New DramatistsInc ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds York Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
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 Shubert Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jerome Robbins Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Ted Snowdon 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.
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% 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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