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Theatre Communications Group Inc

Tcg's mission is to lead for a just and thriving theatre ecology.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$207kCivil Rights$50kCommunity Improvement$10kScience & Tech$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $9,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $99,845 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,845 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BYRD HOFFMAN WATERMILL$9,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO: $53k → 16%PANGEA WORLD THEATER: $43k → 11%PENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY: $43k → 14%PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY: $53k → 6%Pig Iron Theatre Company: $11k → 22%CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $94k → 10%YOUTH SPEAKS INC: $140k → 10%AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $50k → 14%THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $43k → 17%SPIDERWOMAN THEATRE WORKSHOP: $10k → 20%TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS: $10k → 14%NOTA LLC: $10k → 12%THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $53k → 11%KC MELTING POT THEAT: $10k → 15%A CALL TO CONSCIENCE: $10k → 21%BLACK ARTS MKE INC: $10k → 17%ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE: $53k → 12%UNIVERSES INC: $10k → 13%KENNIE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE: $10k → 14%HATTILOO THEATRE: $43k → 17%GILLOURY INSTITUTE: $43k → 14%IMAGINATION STAGE: $18k → 8%HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO: $15k → 16%PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY: $15k → 6%YOUTH SPEAKS INC: $40k → 10%DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER INC: $188k → 14%THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $15k → 11%ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE: $15k → 12%INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TASK FORCE: $43k → 11%NEW NATIVE THEATRE: $43k → 14%Youth Speaks Inc: $20k → 10%NEW YORK LIVE ARTS: $43k → 17%Children's Theatre Company And School: $11k → 11%AFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $188k → 10%CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $188k → 11%GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTION: $50k → 10%NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $140k → 17%COURT THEATRE: $94k → 14%TEN THOUSAND THINGS THEATER CO: $53k → 11%TEADA PRODUCTIONS: $188k → 14%NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $43k → 17%TEATRO VISTA THEATRE WITH A VIEW: $43k → 14%TEN THOUSAND THINGS THEATER CO: $15k → 11%CORNERSTONE THEATRE CO: $14k → 14%NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $40k → 17%New York Shakespeare Festival: $22k → 17%THE TALKING BAND INC: $53k → 17%THE TALKING BAND INC: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
TX
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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.

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 27 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
44

Total granted

$1.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $202k · revenue +33%
  • TT
    Ten Thousand Things Theater
    2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +21%
  • HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • CO
    CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $188k · revenue +9%
  • TP
    TEADA PRODUCTIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $188k · revenue +5% · 61% of their budget
  • AS
    AFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $188k · revenue +508%

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.

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The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
2
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
3
The Story Theatre

The Story Theatre will pose questions, rather than provide answers. We develop and produce new work that is whimsical, melancholic, mythic in vision, and intimate in scale. We are run by a governing artistic ensemble, who ensures our work…

Arts & Culture
4
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

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5
Haven Arts Theatre

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

Arts & Culture
6
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
7
Roots and All Theatre Ensemble
Arts & Culture
8
Forall Theater
Arts & Culture
9
P & J Theater Works
Arts & Culture
10
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

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11
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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12
Actors Company of Natick

The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Theatre Workshop Inc and the most unlike its peers is Court Theatre Fund. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/71
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,494

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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 71 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
38/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $202,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $187,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTSTEADA PRODUCTIONS — $187,500 · Arts & CultureTEADA PRODUCTIONSAFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $187,500 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANYDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC — $187,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INCCourt Theatre Fund — $93,750 · Arts & Culture+51 more — $1,563,900 · Arts & Culture+51 moreCALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $93,750 · OtherINDIGENOUS PEOPLES TASK FORCE — $50,000 · OtherNOTA LLC — $10,000 · OtherVOICES IN THE DARK REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC — $10,000 · OtherYANGTZE REPERTORY THEATRE OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSES INC — $10,000 · OtherMEDINA THEATER COLLECTIVE — $10,000 · OtherPOETS AND SAINTS LLC — $9,000 · Other+2 more — $13,224 · OtherYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentGilloury Institute — $57,500 · InternationalTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP — $10,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,609,650Other$225,974Youth Development$200,000International$57,500Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $202,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $187,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTEADA PRODUCTIONS — $187,500 over 1y, 61% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC — $187,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $93,750 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTen Thousand Things Theater — $75,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTALKING BAND — $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetArtists Repertory Theatre — $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY — $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS — $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBINDLESTIFF STUDIO — $70,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW NATIVE THEATRE — $60,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetGolden Thread Productions — $60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetALTERNATIVE THEATER ENSEMBLE — $60,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGilloury Institute — $57,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPangea World Theater — $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHATTILOO THEATRE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTeatro Vista Theater With a View Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetINDIGENOUS PEOPLES TASK FORCE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKC MELTING POT THEATRE PRODUCTIONS — $18,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetIMAGINATION STAGE INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSU TEATRO INC — $15,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY — $13,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC — $11,150 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRed Eagle Soaring — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKENNIE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAMATERASU ZA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYANGTZE REPERTORY THEATRE OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLOWER DEPTH THEATRE ENSEMBLE — $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSpiderwoman Theatre Workshop Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCanady Foundation for the Arts — $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budget
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.

The Shubert Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…Theater League IncNew England Foundatio…The Map Fund IncDoris Duke Charitable…The Sheri and Les Bil…National Performance …National New Play Net…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Tides Foundation
The Shubert Foundation IncNY65.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Theater League Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Map Fund Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation · National Performance Network Inc · National New Play Network Ltd · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Tides 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 Theatre Communications Group Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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