· Private foundation
Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRACKED LLC | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS | $5,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $5,000 |
| WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| UMUBANA ACADEMY | $2,700 |
| ST ANNE'S WAREHOUSE | $2,500 |
| RED BULL THEATER COMPANY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PLAYERS PRESERVATION FUND INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC9× · 2017–2026 · $450k · revenue +58%
- NPNEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE INC10× · 2017–2026 · $225k · 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
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.
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.
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 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…
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…
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of APIE Inc ↗
- Who funds Tectonic Theater Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PLAYING ON AIR INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE OLD VIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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