New York · Nonprofit
JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT
JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,793 to it, the largest being JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $210k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $243k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Jewish Plays Project does
Mission
The Jewish Plays Project identifies develops and presents new works of theater through one-of a kind explorations of contemporary Jewish identity between audiences artists and patrons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A development series for promising new work including the annual winner of the Jewish Playwriting Contest.
$65,298 spent$1,800 earned by the program48% of program spendingAn international search for the best new full-length plays on Jewish themes.
$60,216 spent$12,083 earned by the program44% of program spendingA series of online and in-person developmental readings paired with the JPPs signature Jewish Dramaturgy process in which Jewish thought leaders - clergy scholars and lay leaders - engage artists to deepen the Jewish content of their plays.
$9,995 spent$1,170 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $135,509.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $95k to $125k (+31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $22k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT’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
JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 61% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record — $35k federal, $360 state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
- DEDICATED$360
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT?
- JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,793 to it, the largest being JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $242,793 in grants to JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT?
- JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing