Texas · Nonprofit
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,600 to it, the largest being The Brown Foundation Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $242k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc does
Mission
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the largest and oldest international playwriting prize awarded to women. This literary prize is given annually to recognize women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre, no matter where they reside. Our permanent list of Finalists and their plays (numbering well over 450) has become an important international resource for theatres interested in new work. As a direct result of being Finalists, many playwrights have received productions, other grants and public recognition. The Prize has motivated women to write for the theatre, and has also fostered the interchange of plays between the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other English-speaking countries. Many Finalist plays have gone on to receive other top honors, including Olivier, Lilly, Evening Standard and Tony Awards for Best Play. Ten Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist plays have subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the largest and oldest international playwriting award for women+. Presented annually, it recognizes women+ who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre, regardless of where they reside. The permanent list of Finalists, now totaling over 490, has become an important international resource for theatres seeking new work. As a direct result of being named Finalists, many playwrights have received productions, grants, and wider recognition. The Prize has inspired women+ to write for the stage and fostered the exchange of plays across the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and other English-speaking countries. Many Finalist plays have gone on to win major honors, including Olivier, Lilly, Evening Standard, and Tony Awards. Eleven have subsequently received the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
$242,534 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.9M to $3.7M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
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Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Leslie Swackhamer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 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
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc: 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 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc?
- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,600 to it, the largest being The Brown Foundation Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $47,600 in grants to Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc?
- The Brown Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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