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Theatre Bay Area

(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.

$144k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$391k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $32,520, the rows itemized in this filing. The $143,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $110,980 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$17,520
Median grant
1
States reached
$468k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Playground$17,520
Bindlestiff Studio$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Central Works: $12k → 10%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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207k · 6 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$207k
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • P
    PLAYGROUND
    6× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +66%
  • SF
    San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company
    2× · 2021–2023 · $34k · revenue +19%
  • IF
    Intersection for the Arts
    2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CF
    Crowded Fire Theater Company
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -57%
  • SA
    SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -17%
  • CB
    Cutting Ball Theater
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -48%
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
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
2
The Studio Theatre Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Jabberwocky Theatre Company

Rogue Machine Theatre was founded in 2008 as a performing arts organization to serve the greater Los Angeles community in developing and nurturing emerging playwrights, introducing important contemporary works to Southern California and…

Arts & Culture
4
Artists Repertory Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
5
San Lorenzo Valley Mountain Community Theater
Arts & Culture
6
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
7
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
8
Haven Arts Theatre

We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.

Arts & Culture
9
The American Playwriting Foundation
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10
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
11
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
12
Theatre Company

Our mission is to enliven our community by transforming found spaces with bold, theatrical endeavors. We place an emphasis on partnering with local businesses all over PDX to serve as venues for our productions

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cutting Ball Theater; the most unlike its peers is Crescent Moon Theater Productions. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLAYGROUND: $80,020 · Arts & CulturePLAYGROUNDCrowded Fire Theater Company: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCrowded Fire Theater CompanySan Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company: $34,000 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Bay Area Theatre CompanyBINDLESTIFF STUDIO: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBINDLESTIFF STUDIOIntersection for the Arts: $23,000 · Arts & CultureIntersection for the ArtsALTERNATIVE THEATER ENSEMBLE: $23,000 · Arts & CultureALTERNATIVE THEATER ENSEMBLEShotgun Players: $22,000 · Arts & CultureShotgun PlayersSHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INCCutting Ball Theater: $22,000 · Arts & CultureCutting Ball TheaterGolden Thread Productions: $12,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMAGIC THEATRE INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre Rhinoceros Inc: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureSEW PRODUCTIONS INC: $12,000 · OtherCounterPulse: $10,000 · OtherCENTRAL WORKS: $12,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$356,520Other$22,000Human Services$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLAYGROUND: $80,020 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCrowded Fire Theater Company: $40,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetSan Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company: $34,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBINDLESTIFF STUDIO: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $23,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALTERNATIVE THEATER ENSEMBLE: $23,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetShotgun Players: $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC: $22,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCutting Ball Theater: $22,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGolden Thread Productions: $12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $12,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSEW PRODUCTIONS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTheatre Rhinoceros Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCENTRAL WORKS: $12,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCounterPulse: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Z Space Studio: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Fleishhacker Foundati…The Zellerbach Family…Kenneth Rainin Founda…The William & Flora H…Gerbode FoundationThe Shubert Foundatio…The Sam Mazza Foundat…The Rock FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…The Bernard Osher Fou…
Phyllis C Wattis FoundationCA32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gerbode Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The Rock Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Bernard Osher 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 Theatre Bay Area funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theatre Bay Area. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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