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Michigan Theater Foundation Inc

To joyfully bring diverse people together to build community, enhance understanding, advance public storytelling and the arts, and protect our historic buildings.

$782k
Granted FY2020
103
Itemized grants FY2020
100
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$739k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$5,286
Largest grant, FY2020
$200,000
States reached, FY2020
35
Total assets, FY2020
$12M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 99 grantees
All grantees of Michigan Theater Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jacob Burns Film Center Inc$10,57210%
Chelsea Art Theater Inc$10,57213%
The Dairy Center for the Arts$10,57211%
Film Society of Austin Inc$5,28610%
Film at Lincoln Center Inc$5,28610%
Siff$5,28610%
Ragtag Film Society$5,28610%
Capri Community Film Society Inc$5,28612%
Northeast Historic Film$5,28611%
Wyoming County Cultural Center$5,28611%
Ohio University$5,2861n/a
Fargo Theatre Management Corporation$5,28611%
Avalon Theatre Project Inc$5,28610%
World Theatre Foundation$5,28611%
Provincetown Film Societyinc$5,2861n/a
14 Pews$5,28613%
The Winterset Iowa Theater$5,28614%
The Picture House Regional Film Center Inc$5,28611%
Bendfilm Inc$5,28611%
Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community$5,28610%
Montclair Film Festival Inc$5,28610%
Media Arts Center San Diego$5,28610%
Fort Wayne Cinema Center Inc$5,28612%
Historic Vogue Theatre of Manistee$5,28612%
Loft Cinema Inc Fka Tucson Cinema Foundation Inc$5,28610%
Gateway Film Foundation$5,28610%
The Tampa Theatre Inc A/K/A Tampa Theatre Foundation$5,28610%
Filmscene$5,28610%
Downtown Winston-Salem Community Cinema$5,28611%
Osio Theater Foundation$5,28612%
Association for the Colonial Theatre$5,28610%
Film Streams Inc$5,28610%
Traverse City Film Festival$5,28611%
Capitol Civic Center Inc$5,28611%
Milwaukee Film Inc$5,28610%
Franklin Heritage Inc$5,28611%
New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre$5,28610%
State Theatre of Modesto Inc$5,28610%
Bedford Playhouse Inc$5,28610%
Cinematique of Daytona Inc$5,28613%
Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc$5,28611%
Rosendale Theatre Collective Inc$5,28613%
Grand Tacoma Cine Club Dba the Grand Cinema$5,28610%
Pickford Film Center$5,28611%
Grandin Theatre Foundation Inc$5,28611%
Emerson College$5,28610%
Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc$5,28611%
Coral Gables Cinemateque Inc$5,28611%
Echo Park Film Center$5,28612%
Friends of the Strand Theatre Inc$5,28611%
Cinestudio Inc$5,28612%
Anthology Film Archives$5,28610%
Red River Film Society Inc$5,28611%
The American Film Institute$5,28610%
Avon Theatre Film Center Inc$5,28611%
Circle Cinema Foundation$5,28611%
Old Town Music Hall Inc$5,28614%
The Frida Cinema$5,28611%
The Little Theatre Film Society Inc$5,28610%
The Roxy Theater$5,28610%
Plazamac Inc$5,2861n/a
Friends of the Midwest Theater$5,28611%
Facets Film Forum$5,28611%
Athens Film Arts Institute Inc DBA Cine$5,28611%
Cinespeak Culture Trust$5,2861n/a
Arena Theater Association$5,28612%
Grand Illusion Cinema$5,28615%
Seventh Art Corporation of Ithaca$5,28611%
Zeigeist Theatre Experiments Inc$5,2861n/a
Friends of Greenbelt Theatre Inc$5,2861n/a
The Producers Club of Md Inc$5,28610%
The Lyric Council Inc$5,28612%
Northwest Film Forum$5,28611%
Enzian Theater Inc$5,28610%
Akron Creative Inc$5,2861n/a
Civic Theatre of Allentown Pa$5,28610%
Bryn Mawr Theatre Film Institute$5,28610%
Acme Screening Room$5,28615%
Upstate Films Ltd$5,28611%
Maysles Institute Inc$5,28611%
The Byrd Theatre Foundation$5,28611%
Maiden Alley Cinema$5,28612%
Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema Inc$5,28610%
The Salt Lake Film Society$5,28610%
Community Images Inc$5,28612%
The Campus Theatre Ltd$5,28612%
Dayton Movies$5,28611%
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre Inc$5,28613%
The Roxie Theater$5,28610%
Brattle Film Foundation Inc$5,28611%
Take-Up Productions$5,28615%
Village Theater Company$5,28612%
North Park Theatre of Buffalo Inc$5,28611%
Cinema Detroit$5,2861n/a
Park City Film Council$5,28611%
Olympia Film Society$5,28612%
Lincoln Theatre Center Foundation$5,28611%
American Cinematheque$5,28610%
Artsquest$5,28610%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michigan Theater Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJacob Burns Film Center Inc: $10,572 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChelsea Art Theater Inc: $10,572 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Dairy Center for the Arts: $10,572 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFilm at Lincoln Center Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSiff: $5,286 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRagtag Film Society: $5,286 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCapri Community Film Society Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNortheast Historic Film: $5,286 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWyoming County Cultural Center: $5,286 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFargo Theatre Management Corporation: $5,286 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAvalon Theatre Project Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Theatre Foundation: $5,286 over 1y, 1.0% of budget14 Pews: $5,286 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Winterset Iowa Theater: $5,286 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetThe Picture House Regional Film Center Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBendfilm Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetZeitgeist Center for Arts and Community: $5,286 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMontclair Film Festival Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMedia Arts Center San Diego: $5,286 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFort Wayne Cinema Center Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHistoric Vogue Theatre of Manistee: $5,286 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLoft Cinema Inc Fka Tucson Cinema Foundation Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGateway Film Foundation: $5,286 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Tampa Theatre Inc A/K/A Tampa Theatre Foundation: $5,286 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFilmscene: $5,286 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDowntown Winston-Salem Community Cinema: $5,286 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOsio Theater Foundation: $5,286 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAssociation for the Colonial Theatre: $5,286 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFilm Streams Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTraverse City Film Festival: $5,286 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCapitol Civic Center Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMilwaukee Film Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFranklin Heritage Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre: $5,286 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetState Theatre of Modesto Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBedford Playhouse Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCinematique of Daytona Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRosendale Theatre Collective Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGrand Tacoma Cine Club Dba the Grand Cinema: $5,286 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPickford Film Center: $5,286 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGrandin Theatre Foundation Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEmerson College: $5,286 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmherst Cinema Arts Center Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCoral Gables Cinemateque Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEcho Park Film Center: $5,286 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of the Strand Theatre Inc: $5,286 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 91.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation IncMA88.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc · Academy Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Ford Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Michigan Theater Foundation Inc

How much does Michigan Theater Foundation Inc give?
Michigan Theater Foundation Inc reported 103 itemized grants totaling $739,172, out of $782,259 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Michigan Theater Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Education (1%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Michigan Theater Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Jacob Burns Film Center Inc ($11k), Chelsea Art Theater Inc ($11k), The Dairy Center for the Arts ($11k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Theater Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc, Academy Foundation, Artsfund.
Where is Michigan Theater Foundation Inc based?
Michigan Theater Foundation Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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