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Waldman Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA | $1,796,000 |
| CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL | $731,000 |
| SPCA OF WESTCHESTER | $50,000 |
| TORAH ACADEMY INC | $25,000 |
| PROJECTS WITH CARE INC | $25,000 |
| HUSKY HALFWAY HOUSE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AHRC NYC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD | $20,000 |
| THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATER COMPANY | $15,000 |
| CHABAD SHUL OF CLOSTER INC | $11,000 |
| FOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE | $10,000 |
| KHAL TIFERES YOSEF IMAD | $10,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES-EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS | $10,000 |
| BAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC | $7,000 |
| YESHIVA OHR YISRAEL | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CICIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +52% · 64% of their budget
- SOSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +32%
- PWPROJECTS WITH CARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +838%
Funded once
- KTKHAL TIFERES YOUSEF IMADone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PCPINES CARE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.
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…
The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…
To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.
American theater group produces new and classic works primarily by american playwrights with an emphasis on the development of new works and the rediscovery of undeservedly neglected older ones.
The organization develops and produces plays.
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,…
New York Theatre Barn is an inclusive home for artists and a holistic incubator of original culture-shifting musicals.Since 2007 it has given underrepresented artists the freedom to experiment in front of live audiences--often for the…
Develop recognition of international theater
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 40 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.
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECTS WITH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds AHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DOVIS PLAYHOUSE FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds HUSKY HALFWAY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Twelfth Night Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA THEATER I INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ABINGDON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MOONSONG MALAMUTE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LABYRINTH INC LABYRINTH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PINES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THERAPY ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham ↗
- Who funds Village Center for Care Fund ↗
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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Waldman Foundation 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.
- Bais Yaakov of Boston Inc — 7% 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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