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Theater Subdistrict Council Local Development Corporation

The Theater Subdistrict Council (TSC) is organized for the purpose of promoting theater and theater-related use and preservation within the theater subdistrict and promoting the (Continued on Schedule O, Statement 2)

$1.1M
Granted FY2019
11
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$161k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$3.4M
02FY2019 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY$161,300
NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP$125,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$121,800
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB$102,000
BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC$102,000
SOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS$100,000
EPIC THEATER CENTER$95,000
THE NEW 42ND STREET INC$82,300
HARLEM STAGE INC$82,200
THEATER DEVELOPMENT FUND INC$68,400
THEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS$60,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY: $200k → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $182k → 20%PROGONES THEATER: $25k → 28%THEATER DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $200k → 17%BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $160k → 20%ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY: $161k → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $122k → 20%THEATER DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $68k → 17%BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $102k → 20%THEATER DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $50k → 17%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $45k → 20%ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY: $50k → 17%BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $40k → 20%NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP: $200k → 17%NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP: $125k → 17%NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP: $50k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATER: $30k → 17%HARLEM STAGE INC: $160k → 17%HARLEM STAGE INC: $82k → 17%HARLEM STAGE INC: $40k → 17%SOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS IN: $160k → 17%SOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS: $100k → 17%SOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL AR: $40k → 17%THE NEW 42ND STREEET INC: $180k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB: $140k → 17%EPIC THEATER CENTER: $140k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB: $102k → 17%EPIC THEATER CENTER: $95k → 17%THE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $82k → 17%THEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS C: $64k → 17%THEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS: $60k → 17%THE NEW 42ND STREEET INC: $45k → 17%EPIC THEATER CENTER: $35k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB: $35k → 17%THEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARR: $16k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 11 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$3.3M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+100%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NY
    NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $375k · revenue +58%
  • TD
    THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $318k · revenue +21%
  • TN
    THE NEW 42ND STREET INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $307k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +33%
  • PP
    PREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +100%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Titan Productions Incorporated

Titan theatre company is committed to breathing new life and clarity into classical works of theatre, exploring new and contemporary language plays, and delivering adventurous and visceral theatrical experiences for our audiences and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Royal National Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
5
Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Please see schedule o for the complete mission statement.berkeley repertory theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and…

Arts & Culture
6
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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7
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
8
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
9
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
10
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Bow Street Theatre Trust
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc; the most unlike its peers is Society of the Educational Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $411,300 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INCNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $375,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INCTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $318,400 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INCTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $307,300 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INCBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $302,000 · Arts & CultureBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INCSOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS INCMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $277,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCEPIC THEATRE CENTER INC: $270,000 · Arts & CultureEPIC THEATRE CENTER INC+2 more: $55,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $348,900 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF M…HARLEM STAGE INC: $282,200 · OtherHARLEM STAGE INCTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP: $140,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,616,000Other$631,100Health$140,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $411,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $375,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $348,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $318,400 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $307,300 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $302,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC: $282,200 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $277,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEPIC THEATRE CENTER INC: $270,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP: $140,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…Alliance of Resident …The Hyde and Watson F…The Ford FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Theater Subdistrict Council Local Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theater Subdistrict Council Local Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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