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Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc

To entertain, inform, and engage - building a vital community through film culture.

$252k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Science & Tech$1.3MArts & Culture$478kEducation$15kEnvironment$7k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $198,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $252,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,700 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$7,400
Median grant
16
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM COMMUNITY CINEMA$9,000
KENWORTHY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE$9,000
INSIGHTS - EL PASO SCIENCE CENTER INC DBA INSIGHTS SCIENCE DISCOVERY$9,000
THE LITTLE THEATRE INC$8,500
COLONIAL THEATRE$8,000
SAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION DBA COMIC-CON MUSEUM$8,000
SLO FILM CENTER - SAN LUIS OBISPO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC$8,000
FRIENDS OF THE PENN (PENN THEATRE)$7,500
OHIO UNIVERSITY$7,500
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC$7,500
UTAH FILM CENTER$7,500
RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY$7,500
ROOFTOP FILMS$7,500
SIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC$7,400
AMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC$7,100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 69 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
29

Total granted

$1.5M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+8%

Still filing today

93%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BT
    BELCOURT THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +54%
  • AC
    AMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +11%
  • ENZIAN THEATER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROVIDENCE CENTER FOR MEDIA CULTURE
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -92%
  • FF
    FILM FORUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +8%
  • CL
    CITY LIGHTS & COMPANY
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Cinestudio Inc

The mission of Hartford's Cinestudio is to celebrate film as art and to provide diverse audiences an eclectic mix of the world's best cinema experiences, presented at the highest technical level in a classic movie palace-like setting.

Arts & Culture
2
Traverse City Film Festival

The traverse city film festival is committed to showing just great movies and helping to save one of americas few indigenous art forms - the cinema. we are committed to showing great movies that both entertain and enlighten the audience.…

Arts & Culture
3
Centre Film Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Community Images Inc

Nonprofit community movie theater dedicated to the exploration of film as an art form, a source of entertainment and an educational tool

Arts & Culture
5
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago

Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…

Arts & Culture
6
Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre

Film forever northwest entertains, inspires, educates and connects our community through the art of film, while preserving the historic hollywood theatre and the world-class movie madness video collection. we offer a diverse array of film…

Philanthropy
7
Red River Theatres Inc

To present film and discussion of film as a way to entertain, broaden horizons and deepen appreciation of life for new hampshire audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
8
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

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9
Green Valley Film & Art Center
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10
The Stanford Theatre Foundation
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11
Crandell Theatre Inc

Crandell theatre is a nonprofit, member-supported community theater that aims to promote and develop an appreciation of film and filmmaking that enriches the social, cultural, and educational experience of the community, family life, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Park City Film Council

The organization's mission is to present cinematic art to the residents of the community, support the creation of cinematic art, and assist in cinematic art educational endeavors of local youth.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Greenbelt Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grenada Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/108
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,457

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/103
Grantees still filing
65/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BELCOURT THEATRE INC — $59,000 · Arts & CultureAMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC — $54,300 · Arts & CultureENZIAN THEATER INC — $49,500 · Arts & CultureFilm Society of Austin Inc — $47,000 · Arts & Culture+74 more — $1,163,550 · Arts & Culture+74 moreGEM THEATER (THE GEM LLC) — $29,500 · OtherGEM THEATER (THE …THE ROXY THEATER — $29,500 · OtherTHE ROXY THEATEROhio University — $25,500 · OtherOhio UniversityFILM STREAMS INC — $24,500 · OtherFILM STREAMS INCART HOUSE CINEMA (CINE BILLINGS) — $15,500 · OtherART HOUSE CINEMA …GREAT NECK CENTER FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS — $15,500 · OtherGREAT NECK CENTER…NEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC — $14,500 · OtherNEW ORLEANS FILM …BETHLEHEM REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $13,600 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine — $12,500 · OtherJUMP SOCIETY — $12,000 · OtherFRANKLIN HERITAGE INC — $12,000 · Other+9 more — $64,000 · Other+9 moreCornell University — $23,100 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $15,950 · EducationSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $15,500 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundation — $7,500 · EducationThird Space Foundation — $7,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College — $7,000 · EducationNorthwestern University — $21,000 · Recreation & SportsGRENADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $8,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementGorton Community Center — $6,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,373,350Other$268,600Education$76,050Recreation & Sports$21,000Philanthropy$8,500Community Improvement$7,500Human Services$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBELCOURT THEATRE INC — $59,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC — $54,300 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetENZIAN THEATER INC — $49,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc — $47,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFILMSCENE — $45,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY — $38,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAthens Film Arts Institute Inc DBA Cine — $36,750 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetREAL ART WAYS INC — $31,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROOFTOP FILMS INC — $31,175 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Cameo — $29,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE ROXY THEATER — $29,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FRIDA CINEMA — $29,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSALINA ART CENTER INC — $28,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL INC — $28,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVILLAGE THEATER COMPANY — $26,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKenworthy Performing Arts Centre Inc — $26,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE — $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC — $25,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC — $24,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE — $24,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $23,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University — $23,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPICKFORD FILM CENTER — $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHOTGUN CINEMA — $21,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetNorthwestern University — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO — $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC — $20,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY — $19,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB DBA THE GRAND CINEMA — $19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $17,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOXFILM — $16,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetDES MOINES FILM SOCIETY — $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetASPEN FILM — $16,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $15,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER — $15,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PENN INC — $15,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $15,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGREAT NECK CENTER FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS — $15,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetROSS RAGLAND THEATER AND CULTURAL C — $15,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER — $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Michigan Theater Foun…Academy FoundationThe Ford FoundationMid-America Arts Alli…Hollywood Foreign Pre…New York Council for …Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Ibm International Fou…John S and James L Kn…Union Pacific Foundat…AARPMarin Community Found…
Michigan Theater Foundation IncMI88.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michigan Theater Foundation Inc · Academy Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Mid-America Arts Alliance · Hollywood Foreign Press Association · New York Council for the Humanities · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · AARP · Marin Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural C — 11% of income from government
  • City Lights & Company — 9% of income from government
  • The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Living Arts Trust Inc Dba O Cinema — 6% of income from government
  • Museum of Discovery and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Enzian Theater Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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