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Axe-Houghton Foundation

Name: Axe-Houghton Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

216
grants reported: $1.7M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $7,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Justice Resource Center8 grants · $92,000
De La Salle Academy4 grants · $48,500
New York City Urban Debate League4 grants · $46,000
Stuttering Association for the Young4 grants · $39,000
Csc Repertory Ltd4 grants · $38,000
Symphony Space4 grants · $38,000
Epic Theatre Center4 grants · $37,000
Girl Be Heard Institute4 grants · $37,000
Red Bull Theater4 grants · $35,500
Irish Repertory Theatre Company4 grants · $35,500

Giving over time

$397,500

2022

$418,000

2023

$410,000

2024

$425,230

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 216 grants.

$14,000
De La Salle Academy · New York, NY · 2025
Axe-Houghton Speech and Debate Program
$13,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2025
The Constitution Works
$13,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2025
Oral Debate - We The People
$12,500
De La Salle Academy · New York, NY · 2024
Axe-Houghton Speech and Debate Program
$12,000
Stuttering Association for the Young · New York, NY · 2025
Confident Voices
$12,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2024
Oral-Debate We The People fund
$12,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2024
The Constitution Works
$12,000
New York City Urban Debate League · New York, NY · 2024
New York City Urban Debate League Spring Tournament fund
$12,000
De La Salle Academy · New York, NY · 2023
Axe-Houghton Speech and Debate Program
$12,000
New York City Urban Debate League · New York, NY · 2023
The New York City Urban Debate League 2023-24 Tournament Season
$11,000
New York City Urban Debate League · New York, NY · 2025
New York City Urban Debate League Tournament #5
$11,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2023
We The People-Oral Debate fund
$11,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2023
The Constitution Works
$11,000
New York City Urban Debate League · New York, NY · 2022
funds for debates to foster and encourage an appreciation of the English language in New York City high schools and middle school
$10,000
Csc Repertory Ltd · New York, NY · 2025
The Emporium a play by Thornton Wilder
$10,000
Red Bull Theater · New York, NY · 2025
Red Bull Theater's 2025/26 Revelation Reading Series and Short New Play Festival
$10,000
Symphony Space · New York, NY · 2025
Selected Shorts
$10,000
Csc Repertory Ltd · New York, NY · 2024
Production Support for BUS STOP, a mainstage production in CSC's 2024-25 Season
$10,000
Stuttering Association for the Young · New York, NY · 2024
Confident Voices program
$10,000
Symphony Space · New York, NY · 2024
Selected Shorts fund
$10,000
De La Salle Academy · New York, NY · 2022
Axe-Houghton Speech and Debate Program
$10,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2022
WE THE PEOPLE-oral debate program
$10,000
Justice Resource Center · New York, NY · 2022
The Constitution Works
$9,500
Epic Theatre Center · Astoria, NY · 2025
Epic's Beyond-School REMIX at 5 Sites
$9,500
Girl Be Heard Institute · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Girl Empowerment Weekend Workshops
$9,500
Irish Repertory Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2025
2026 North American Premiere of ULSTER AMERICAN
$9,500
National Asian-American Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2025
New Work Reading Series
$9,500
Epic Theatre Center · Astoria, NY · 2024
Epic's Beyond-School REMIX
$9,500
Girl Be Heard Institute · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Girl Empowerment Weekend Workshops
$9,500
National Asian-American Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2024
Cymbeline fund
$9,500
Red Bull Theater · New York, NY · 2024
Red Bull Theater's 2024/25 Revelation Reading Series and Short New Play Festival
$9,000
Mint Theater Company · New York, NY · 2025
CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson
$9,000
National Black Theatre Workshop Incorporated · New York, NY · 2025
Soul Series Liberating Artistic Bravery (LAB) Residency Program & Public Presentation of The Festival In Da Back
$9,000
New York Theatre Workshop · New York, NY · 2025
New York Theatre Workshop's 2025/26 Education and Community Engagement Initiatives
$9,000
Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater · Bronx, NY · 2025
To support the remounting of THE WEDDING MARCH
$9,000
Urban Word Nyc · New York, NY · 2025
Poetry and Spoken Word Workshops and Fellowships
$9,000
Irish Repertory Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2024
Irish Repertory Theatre 2024-2025 Season
$9,000
Mint Theater Company · New York, NY · 2024
SUMP'N LIKE WINGS led by Lynn Riggs
$9,000
National Black Theatre Workshop Incorporated · New York, NY · 2024
Soul Series Liberating Artistic Bravery Residency program
$9,000
Csc Repertory Ltd · New York, NY · 2023
Production Support for WINE IN THE WILDERNESS, part of CSC's 2023-24 Season
$9,000
Epic Theatre Center · Astoria, NY · 2023
Epic's After School REMIX
$9,000
Girl Be Heard Institute · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Girl Empowerment Weekend Workshops
$9,000
Symphony Space · New York, NY · 2023
Selected Shorts
$9,000
Csc Repertory Ltd · New York, NY · 2022
Production Support for BLACK ODYSSEY, part of CSC's 2022-23 Season
$9,000
Epic Theatre Center · Astoria, NY · 2022
Epic's After-school REMIX fund
$9,000
Girl Be Heard Institute · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Girl Empowerment Weekend Workshops program
$9,000
Symphony Space · New York, NY · 2022
Selected Shorts fund
$8,500
Asian American Writers Workshop · New York, NY · 2025
AAWW Open Mic Series
$8,500
Clubbed Thumb · New York, NY · 2025
Summerworks 2026
$8,500
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2025
Poetry Electric
$8,500
Manhattan Class Company · New York, NY · 2025
MCC Theater's Classroom Partnerships fund
$8,500
Movement Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2025
TAMAGO Staged Design Workshop
$8,500
New York Classical Theatre · New York, NY · 2025
27th Season Free Shakespeare in the Parks: "Julius Caesar"
$8,500
Poets House · New York, NY · 2025
Poets House Youth Center and youth programs
$8,500
Rattlestick Productions · New York, NY · 2025
Indian Princesses by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
$8,500
Theatre for a New Audience · New York, NY · 2025
Theatre for a New Audience's 2025-2026 Arts in Education Programs
$8,500
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2024
Poetry Electric 2024-2025
$8,500
Manhattan Class Company · New York, NY · 2024
MCC Theater's Classroom Partnerships fund
$8,500
Movement Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2024
Tamago fund
$8,500
New York Classical Theatre · New York, NY · 2024
Panoramic Theatre production of William Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well"
$8,500
New York Theatre Workshop · New York, NY · 2024
New York Theatre Workshop's 2024/25 Education and Community Engagement Initiatives
$8,500
Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support the World Premiere of PARROTS AT THE PAGODA
$8,500
Theatre for a New Audience · New York, NY · 2024
Theatre for a New Audience's 2024-2025 Arts in Education Programs
$8,500
Urban Word Nyc · New York, NY · 2024
Poetry and Spoken Word Workshops and Fellowships
$8,500
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center · New York, NY · 2024
BOWL EP written and directed by Nazareth Hassan
$8,500
Irish Repertory Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2023
Irish Repertory Theatre 2023-2024 Season
$8,500
Manhattan Class Company · New York, NY · 2023
MCC Theater Classroom Partnerships Initiative fund
$8,500
New Dramatists · New York, NY · 2023
The Playwrights Lab
$8,500
New York Theatre Workshop · New York, NY · 2023
New York Theatre Workshop's 23/24 Education and Community Engagement Fund
$8,500
Red Bull Theater · New York, NY · 2023
Red Bull Theater's 2023-24 Revelation Reading Series and Short New Play Festival
$8,500
Stuttering Association for the Young · New York, NY · 2023
Confident Voices fund
$8,500
Irish Repertory Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2022
Irish Repertory Theatre 2022-2023 Season
$8,500
Manhattan Class Company · New York, NY · 2022
MCC Theater's Classroom Partnerships fund
$8,500
New Dramatists · New York, NY · 2022
The Playwrights' Lab
$8,500
New York Theatre Workshop · New York, NY · 2022
New York Theatre Workshop's 2022/23 Education and Community Engagement Initiatives
$8,500
Stuttering Association for the Young · New York, NY · 2022
Confident Voices program
$8,000
Foundation for City College · New York, NY · 2025
The Poetry Outreach Center at The City College of New York
$8,000
Irondale Productions · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Collisions Fund
$8,000
Latinx Playwrights Circle · Middletown, NY · 2025
Intensive Mentorship Program
$8,000
Play Production Company · New York, NY · 2025
to support "The Horse of Jenin'Dear Laila'
$8,000
Soho Repertory Theatre · New York, NY · 2025
Production Support and Audience Outreach Efforts for WATCH ME WALK by Anne Gridley
$8,000
Theater Breaking Through Barriers Corp · New York, NY · 2025
Transcendency Rising: Six Short Plays about Defying Limitations
$8,000
Waterwell Productions · New York, NY · 2025
The Liability production fund
$8,000
Working Theatre Co · New York, NY · 2025
TheaterWorks! Adult Education Program
$8,000
Asian American Writers Workshop · New York, NY · 2024
AAWW Voices in Bloom
$8,000
Clubbed Thumb · New York, NY · 2024
Summerworks 2025
$8,000
Latinx Playwrights Circle · Middletown, NY · 2024
Intensive Mentorship Program
$8,000
Play Production Company · New York, NY · 2024
Amm(i)gone fund
$8,000
Soho Repertory Theatre · New York, NY · 2024
Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! Production and Audience Outreach Efforts
$8,000
Working Theatre Co · New York, NY · 2024
TheaterWorks Adult Education Program
$8,000
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2023
Poetry electric 2023-2024
$8,000
Mint Theater Company · New York, NY · 2023
PARTNERSHIP written by Elizabeth Baker
$8,000
National Asian-American Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2023
funds for Isabel
$8,000
National Black Theatre Workshop Incorporated · New York, NY · 2023
Soul Series Liberating Artistic Bravery Residency program
$8,000
Theatre for a New Audience · New York, NY · 2023
Theatre for a New Audience's 2023-2024 Arts in Education Programs
$8,000
Urban Word Nyc · New York, NY · 2023
Poetry & Spoken Word Workshops
$8,000
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2022
Poetry electric 2022 - 2023
$8,000
National Asian-American Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2022
Romeo and Juliet program
$8,000
National Black Theatre Workshop Incorporated · New York, NY · 2022
In The Name Of The Mother Tree fund
$8,000
Urban Word Nyc · New York, NY · 2022
Poetry & Spoken Word Workshops

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