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Time Warner Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$332k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$78k
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 FY2017–2021.

Arts & Culture$7.6MEducation$979kYouth Development$200kCivil Rights$175kHealth$100kRecreation & Sports$80kPhilanthropy$50k
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $278k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$56
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES$78,358
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$50,000
SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY$50,000
HISPANIC FEDERATION$50,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$50,000
HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND$28,940
CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION$25,000
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Harvard Kennedy School: $75k → 8%Berkeley Reperotry Theatre: $125k → 10%Atlantic Theater Company: $100k → 17%Reel Works: $100k → 20%UNCF: $125k → 14%Borscht: $75k → 15%Oregon Shakespaere Festival: $125k → 13%Reel Works: $100k → 20%Ghetto Film School: $100k → 28%Brooklyn College Foundation: $125k → 20%Ghetto Film School: $100k → 28%Atlantic Theater Company: $75k → 17%Brooklyn College Foundation: $125k → 20%American Film Institute: $125k → 14%American Film Institute: $100k → 14%Goodman Theatre: $150k → 14%LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $78k → 14%Brooklyn Academy of Music: $100k → 20%Goodman Theatre: $150k → 14%Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP): $150k → 20%Sundance Institute: $377k → 14%The Public Theater: $500k → 17%Sundance Institute: $376k → 14%The Public Theater: $250k → 17%Film Independent: $175k → 14%New York Theatre Workshop: $125k → 17%Film Independent: $175k → 14%Lincoln Center Theatre: $100k → 17%Hispanic Scholarship Fund: $300k → 14%New York Theatre Workshop: $75k → 17%Point Foundation: $60k → 14%Lincoln Center Theatre: $100k → 17%Hispanic Scholarship Fund: $100k → 14%Women's Project: $75k → 17%Women's Project: $75k → 17%Harlem Stage: $75k → 17%Harlem Stage: $75k → 17%Tribeca Film Institute: $300k → 17%Tribeca Film Institute: $150k → 17%Second Stage Theatre: $375k → 17%Signature Theatre Company: $250k → 17%Signature Theatre Company: $150k → 17%Second Stage Theatre: $125k → 17%New Dramatists: $115k → 17%New Dramatists: $115k → 17%BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS: $100k → 17%Playwrights Horizons: $75k → 17%Playwrights Horizons: $75k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Time Warner Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Time Warner Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 39 repeat orgs$938k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 36 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
15

Total granted

$8.2M
$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+68%

Still filing today

77%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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
    3× · 2017–2021 · $800k · revenue +33%
  • Sundance Institute
    2× · 2017–2018 · $753k · revenue +1%
  • TS
    THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +99%
  • BA
    BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +2%

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.

1
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
2
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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3
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The American Playwriting Foundation
—
6
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
7
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
8
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
9
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
10
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
11
The New Group Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Point Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,714

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.

05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $800,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALSundance Institute — $752,667 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INCSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC — $450,000 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INCFILM INDEPENDENT — $350,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INCNew DramatistsInc — $230,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $225,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY — $175,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $175,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $870,000 · Arts & Culture+15 moreTRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INC — $450,000 · OtherTRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INCIndependent Filmmaker Project (IFP) — $200,000 · OtherIndependent Filmmaker Project …Lincoln Center Theatre — $200,000 · OtherLincoln Center TheatreIndividual grant recipient — $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHARLEM STAGE INC — $150,000 · OtherHARLEM STAGE INCWomen's Project — $150,000 · OtherWomen's ProjectYale Repertory Theatre — $150,000 · OtherYale Repertory TheatreBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $100,000 · OtherThe Lark — $100,000 · OtherBLACK FILMMAKER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherTrue Colors — $100,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $100,000 · OtherMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY — $100,000 · Other+10 more — $425,000 · Other+10 moreHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $428,940 · EducationHISPANIC SCHO…THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN …UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $125,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO …POINT FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDAT…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC — $100,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSO…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $75,000 · EducationPresident and…REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentNorthwestern University — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $78,358 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$5,227,667Other$2,500,000Education$1,078,940Youth Development$200,000Recreation & Sports$80,000Community Improvement$78,358

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $800,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSundance Institute — $752,667 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $500,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC — $450,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INC — $450,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $428,940 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $350,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNew DramatistsInc — $230,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $225,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC — $200,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY — $175,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $175,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK FILMMAKER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY — $100,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES — $78,358 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBORSCHT CORP — $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MINORITY INTERESTS IN MEDIA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE WORKING THEATRE CO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSU TEATRO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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 Howard Gilman Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…Jewish Communal FundThe Lucille Lortel Fo…The Fan Fox and Lesli…Doris Duke Charitable…The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…Alliance of Resident …Booth Ferris Foundati…The Hearst Foundation
The Shubert Foundation IncNY33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Hearst 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 Time Warner Foundation 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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

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 59 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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