· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +14%
- 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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 40 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 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 Twelfth Night Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN NEW YORK INC ↗
- 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 LABYRINTH INC LABYRINTH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PINES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS 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 Village Center for Care Fund ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waldman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waldman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bais Yaakov of Boston Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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