Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc
New York, NY · EIN 13-3082489. Reported 75 grants totalling $590,429 to 42 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $6,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $70,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood Playhouse | New York, NY | $175,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| New York Theatre Workshop | New York, NY | $120,755 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Elysium Between Two Continents | New York, NY | $34,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Friends of Apie Inc | New York, NY | $29,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tectonic Theater Project | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Works & Process at the Guggenheim | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Red Bull Theater Company | New York, NY | $17,074 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Cracked LLC | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music | Brooklyn, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tom Gold Dance | New York, NY | $11,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mark Morris Dance Group | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Marion Institute | Marion, MA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| US Friends of Apie | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Voice Experience | Palm Harbor, FL | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Rattlestick Theater Company | New York, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Anne's Warehouse | Brooklyn, NY | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bucks County Playhouse | New Hope, PA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sherrill Milnes Voice Programs | Palm Harbor, FL | $5,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chapel and York Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Manhattan Theatre Club | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Shed | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Theatre Palisades | Pacific Palisades, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ubumuntu Arts Festival | Kigali Rwanda | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Women in Film & Video Inc | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Paris Opera & Ballet | New York, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City Parks Foundation | New York, NY | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Batonga Foundation | Washington, DC | $3,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yadoo | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Umubana Academy | Kigali City, Kicukiro District | $2,700 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Friends of the Donmar | Harrison, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Classic Theater of Harlem | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Dance Institute | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Theatre for a New Audience | Brooklyn, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City Center | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Good Shepherd Services | Brooklyn, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Professional Theatre Women | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Myriad USA | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oasis Arts | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opening Act | Brooklyn, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Artisans Guild of America | Long Island City, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Players Preservation Fund Inc | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
14 of 42 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 43%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- New York Theatre Workshop
DONATION FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES - Manhattan Theatre Club
ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE THEATRE COMMUNITY - Players Preservation Fund Inc
RESTORING AND PRESERVING THE HISTORICALLY AND ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT BUILDING LOCATED AT 16 GRAMERCY PARK SOUTH AS WELL AS PROVIDING A PLACE FOR MEMBERS AND PROFESSIONALS TO CELEBRATE HIGH QUALITY ART AND MUSIC.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 37 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $196,500 | $3,750 |
| 2022 | 15 | $158,255 | $3,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $89,974 | $4,287 |
| 2024 | 13 | $74,000 | $2,500 |
| 2025 | 13 | $71,700 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
90% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Tony Randall Theatrical Fund Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 122 East 42ND Street 4300, New York, NY, 10168. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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