Richenthal Foundation
About the Foundation
The Richenthal Foundation was created in 1961 by Arthur and Vivian Richenthal as a private fund to contribute to charitable entities qualifying under the applicable laws and regulations of the IRS.
The Richenthal Foundation focuses on grants to performing arts organizations including theatre, dance, and music —primarily in New York City. It also provides support to a variety of other activities including, but not limited to, education, health, sustainability, and social causes.
Our Team
Program Director: David Richenthal
Trustees: David Bronston, Peter Graham, Liana Stampur, Dovie F. Wingard
Executive Assistant: Kim Campi
Counsel: Dan Kurtz, Esq. and Shveta Kakar, Esq. at the firm of Pryor Cashman LLP
Accountant: Alexander Lazzaruolo, CPA at the firm of Condon O’Meara McGinty & Donnelly LLP
Grantees 2020 – 2022
3 Generations
Actor’s Fund
Alley Theatre
Apollo Theatre
Atlantic Theater Company
Belau National Museum
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Center for Council
Classic Stage Company
Clean Break Theatre Company
CutRedTape4Heroes
Dolphins Pacific Corp.
DreamYard Project
En Garde Arts
GivePower
Goodman Theatre Company
Howard Taubman Playhouse
Irish Repertory Theatre
Ironman Foundation
LaneCoArts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
MacDowell
Mama Foundation for the Arts
MCC Theatre Company
National Black Theatre
New York City Ballet
New York Stage & Film
Pacific Academic Institute for Research (PAIR)
Parks & Trails NY
Playing on Air
Prep for Prep
PS21, Ince. – Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
Public Theatre
Red Bull Theater
Second Stage Theatre
Soho Repertory Theatre
Spectrum Youth and Family Services
Staten Island Shakespeare Co.
Tamerlaine Sanctuary & Preserve
Theater Hall of Fame
Theatre Communications Group
The Lark
Third Street Music School Settlement
Transcend, Inc
Waterwell
Williamstown Theatre Festival
A Closer Look, Inc.
Adirondack Council
American Ballet Theatre
Ars Nova
Bedlam
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids
Camp at Ars Nova
CityKids Foundation
Classical Theatre of Harlem
Clubbed Thumb
Dewill A. Klengar Foundation
Dramatists Guild Fund
Emerge125 Dance Company
Ensemble Studio Theatre
Essential Information
Harlem Chamber Players
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (IBD Children’s Center)
La Femme Theatre Productions
LEAP (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program)
Lincoln Center Theater
Madison Play Group
Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC)
Movement Theatre Company
New Group
New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)
Open Space Institute
Park Avenue Armory
Perelman Performing Arts Center
Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Realm
Primary Stages
Public Concern Foundation
Rapid Defense Network
Rogue Machine Theatre
Signature Theatre
Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth
St Ann’s Warehouse
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
Teicholz Holocaust Remembrance Film Fund
Theatre Aspen
Theatre for a New Audience
The Orchard Project
Together We Remember
Vineyard Theatre
Westport Country Playhouse
Young Dancemakers
The Horton Foote Award
Presented to a dramatist whose work seeks to plumb the ineffable nature of being human.
2022 Sanaz Toossi
2021 Carla Ching, Kia Corthron, Alesha Harris, Donja R. Love, Mfoniso Udofia
2020 Lydia Diamond
2019 Amy Herzog, Heidi Schreck
2018 James Anthony Tyler
2017 Rajiv Joseph
2016 Stephen Karam
Contact Us
Contact us at assistant@richenthalfoundation.org