· Private foundation
Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE | $35,000 |
| BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE | $6,500 |
| ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS | $5,000 |
| TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THEATRE PALISADES | $5,000 |
| SHERRILL MILNES VOICE PROGRAMS | $3,000 |
| ST ANNE'S WAREHOUSE | $2,500 |
| CLASSIC THEATER OF HARLEM | $2,500 |
| RED BULL THEATER COMPANY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DONMAR | $2,500 |
| CITY PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OPENING ACT | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NYNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +58%
- NPNEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +21%
- FOFriends of APIE Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $59k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- BABROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +12%
- SISUNDANCE INSTITUTE THEATER LABone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
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…
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Develop recognition of international theater
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…
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,…
At Atlantic, our aim is singular: to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. Across our work, we are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Apie Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
44 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. 44 of the 86 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
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- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Tectonic Theater Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE OLD VIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYING ON AIR INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Stephen & Ruth Hendel Foundation · Richenthal Foundation · Daryl & Steven Roth Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Andrew W Mellon 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 Tony Randall Theatrical Fund 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.
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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.
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