Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Black Women Playwrights Group Inc
Black Women Playwrights Group Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($140,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $-2741
What Black Women Playwrights Group Inc does
Mission
The Black Women Playwrights group (BWPG) is a service and advocacy group for African American playwrights writing for the professional theater. The mission of BWPG is to support and promote the work of our members as well as advocate on critical issues within the theater world. For more than 20 years in the Washington, DC metropolitan community, we have been an institution that reflects and serves our community, gives voice and an artistic haven to women who are writing their first play, and to those who have won many honors and awards. BWPG represents women playwrights of color at national theater convenings and in professional pblications such as The Theater Journal, published by Johns Hopkins University.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
"12@12 Noon" is a private SMS that delivers 12-line dramatic scenes to a mobile phone or tablet every weekday at 12 noon. Each line is only 140 characters and the scenes are written by award-winning playwrights.The 12@12Noon scenes are then performed by professional actors in casual performance venues such as coffee houses, community centers, and ice cream parlors. The app and performances are free and open to the public."12 Line Wonder" is the educational version of the 12@12 Noon app, and also delivers 12-line dramatic scenes to students on their mobile devices and each scene is accompanied by a lesson plan in the Teacher Portal, discussion questions, and a quiz. The apps are interactive and at the end of each scene, there is a call to action for students and users to write their own 12-line scene, using the characters and circumstances as a starting point.
$17,057 spent19% of program spendingBWPG supports Music & Mentoring House, Inc (M&MH). M&MH is organized as a New York State non-profit organization that cultivates a positive appreciation for the arts and culture, by enhancing the educational experience of artists in a safe, affordable and mentored environment. M&MH provides hands-on mentoring, upscale affordable housing and complete board to students and professionals studying arts in New York City. The corporation also provides a place where the public can come together and experience the development of young artists and the importance the arts play in society. BWPG has no control, subsidiary, or any other relationship with M&MH other than supporting its mission through the arms length remission of proceeds as documented and disclosed in Part III, Line 28a of this filing.
$73,838 spent81% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,895.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $138k to $132k (−4%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Black Women Playwrights Group Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $45k → $80k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Black Women Playwrights Group Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Black Women Playwrights Group Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Black Women Playwrights Group Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
73% of Black Women Playwrights Group Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Black Women Playwrights Group Inc's revenue fell 34% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Black Women Playwrights Group Inc?
- Black Women Playwrights Group Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($140,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Black Women Playwrights Group Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $193,000 in grants to Black Women Playwrights Group Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Women Playwrights Group Inc?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Women Playwrights Group Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing