How much did Theatre Bay Area grant in FY2025?

Theatre Bay Area reported 2 grants totaling $143,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Theatre Bay Area based?

Theatre Bay Area is based in CA.

Theatre Bay Area

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· Public charity

Theatre Bay Area

Theatre Bay Areas mission is to unite, strengthen, promote and advance the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on behalf of the conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy and truly [continued next page]

$144k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$18k

Largest

01What you fund

0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$339kHuman Services$12kOther$32k

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

2019

artisticartists audienceplayground

2020

artcommunity-basedrelevantartistaffordableartists

2021

audiencesliveplaysartiststheaterplaygroundvoices

2022

engagecontemporaryaudiencesartistsplayground

2023

golden threadaudiencesplaystheaterplayground

2024

playground

2025

playground

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

03FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$17,520

Median grant

States reached

$468k

Total assets

Largest grants

Playground$17,520
Bindlestiff Studio$15,000

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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$184k · 5 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$184k

$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%

+27%

Still filing today

80%

92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

P
Playground
6× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +32%
SF
San Francisco Bay Area Theatr
2× · 2021–2023 · $34k · revenue +1790%
BS
Bindlestiff Studio
2× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +123%

Funded once

CF
Crowded Fire Theatre
one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -48%
CB
Cutting Ball Theater
one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -54%
LS
Livermore Shakespeare Festivagraduated
one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +65%

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.

Theatre Bay Area

Arts & Culture

Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…

Arts & Culture

The Studio Theatre Inc

Produces and presents professional theatre productions.

Arts & Culture

Know Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture

San Jose Stage Company

Live theatre; for benefit of actors, directors and public

—

Seattle Public Theater

Producing professional-caliber theater aimed at a broad audience with the intent of strengthening the civic life and dialogue, providing inclusive hands-on theater.

—

Jabberwocky Theatre Company

Rogue Machine produces world premiere of new plays, primarily by Los Angeles-based playwrights, and plays new to Los Angeles, including American, West Coast, and Regional Premieres of significant contemporary theatrical works. Rogue…

Arts & Culture

The Aurora Theatre Company

Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an…

Arts & Culture

Contemporary American Theater Festival

Theater and other contemporary arts

Arts & Culture

Unlabeled Theatre Company

Arts & Culture

Writers Theatre Inc

To present world-class productions of classic, adapted, and original plays, and to provide a wide array of education and enrichment programming for area students and theatre-goers.

Arts & Culture

Second Thought Theatre

Second Thought Theatre provides an intimate and unique theatrical experience by empowering top local artists to take risks and by showcasing writers who boldly tackle the difficult and demanding questions of our rapidly changing world.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakland Theater Project and the most unlike its peers is Sew 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.

05the grantee network

17 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

11/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$338,520Other$32,000Human Services$12,000

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.

Phyllis C Wattis FoundationCA31.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Gerbode Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The Rock Foundation · Koret Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco 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 organisation Theatre Bay Area 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: Alternative Theatre Ensemble.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +91% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861110074 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 Alternative Theatre Ensemble, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Theatre Bay Area?

Find your warmest path to Theatre Bay Area 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.

Theatre Bay Area

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Theatre Bay Area?

More from the funding graph

Theatre Bay Area

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Theatre Bay Area?

More from the funding graph