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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
7
Organizations funded FY2021
57%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$78,358
Organizations funded a year
2 to 51
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
4
Total assets, FY2021
$56
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 57% of the organizations Time Warner Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20217$332k57%
FY20202$150k100%
FY201840$3.9M3%
FY201751$4.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Shakespeare Festival$800,00031%
Sundance Institute$752,66721%
The Second Stage Theatre Inc$500,00024%
Signature Theatre Company Inc$450,00032%
Tribeca Film Institute Inc$450,00026%
Hispanic Scholarship Fund$428,94031%
Film Independent$350,00022%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$300,00021%
The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc$250,00022%
New DramatistsInc$230,00028%
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All grantees of Time Warner Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Shakespeare Festival$800,00031%
Sundance Institute$752,66721%
The Second Stage Theatre Inc$500,00024%
Signature Theatre Company Inc$450,00032%
Tribeca Film Institute Inc$450,00026%
Hispanic Scholarship Fund$428,94031%
Film Independent$350,00022%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$300,00021%
The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc$250,00022%
New DramatistsInc$230,00028%
The American Film Institute$225,00020%
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$200,00022%
The Ghetto Film School Inc$200,00024%
Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking Inc$200,00027%
Berkeley Repertory Theatre$175,00021%
Atlantic Theater Company$175,00021%
Harlem Stage Inc$150,00023%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$150,00021%
United Negro College Fund Inc$125,00010%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$100,00010%
National Association of Latino Independent Producers Inc$100,00026%
Chicken & Egg Films Inc$100,00022%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$100,00010%
Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble Inc Dba Ma-Yi Theater Company$100,00028%
Black Filmmaker Foundation Inc$100,00027%
Point Foundation$100,00022%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$100,00020%
Steppenwolf Theatre Company$80,00020%
Northwestern University$80,00020%
South Coast Repertory Inc$80,00020%
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes$78,35811%
Borscht Corp$75,000115%
Dance Theatre of Harlem Inc$50,00011%
Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center Inc$50,00020%
Fractured Atlas Inc$50,00010%
Foundation for Minority Interests in Media Inc$50,00021%
Billie Holiday Theatre Inc$50,00029%
San Francisco Film Society$50,00020%
Rattlestick Productions Inc$50,00014%
National Theatre in America Inc$25,00011%
The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre$25,00011%
Victory Gardens Theater$25,0001n/a
Cara Mia Theatre Co$20,00013%
The Working Theatre Co Inc$20,00016%
Su Teatro Inc$15,00012%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Time Warner Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNew York Theatre Workshop Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% 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 budgetBerkeley Repertory Theatre: $175,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAtlantic Theater Company: $175,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 budgetBrooklyn Academy of Music Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Association of Latino Independent Producers Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetChicken & Egg Films Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMa-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble Inc Dba Ma-Yi Theater Company: $100,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBlack Filmmaker Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetPoint Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCenter Theatre Group of Los Angeles: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetBorscht Corp: $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDance Theatre of Harlem Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Minority Interests in Media Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBillie Holiday Theatre Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRattlestick Productions Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 44.

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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 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

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.

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About Time Warner Foundation Inc

How much does Time Warner Foundation Inc give?
Time Warner Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $332,298 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Time Warner Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Education (11%), Youth Development (2%).
Who are Time Warner Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: New York Shakespeare Festival ($800k), Sundance Institute ($753k), The Second Stage Theatre Inc ($500k).
Does Time Warner Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Time Warner Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Time Warner Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
Where is Time Warner Foundation Inc based?
Time Warner Foundation Inc is based in GA.

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 59 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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