How much did MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2020?

MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC reported 103 grants totaling $782,259 in its FY2020 IRS filing.

Where is MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC based?

MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC is based in MI.

MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC

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· Public charity

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

Grants

Communities

$200k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2020 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k102 grants · $539k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k

$5,286

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

JANUS FILMS$200,000
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES$5,286
PROVINCETOWN FILM SOCIETY$5,286
BYRD THEATRE FOUNDATION$5,286
MILWAUKEE FILM INC$5,286
RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY$5,286
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$5,286
DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,286
AVALON THEATER PROJECT INC$5,286
MAYSLES INSTITUTE$5,286
WORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION$5,286
MARTHAS VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY$5,286
FRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER$5,286
TROPIC CINEMA$5,286
PLAZAMAC INC$5,286

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 79% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Film Independent

To support independent filmmakers and to promote independent filmmaking to the public.

Arts & Culture

Cinema Detroit

Motion picture exhibition

Arts & Culture

Antenna Theater

Arts & Culture

Green Valley Film & Art Center

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Independent Film Alliance

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The Rogue Theatre

To create the highest quality theatre possible, challenging, stretching and invigorating our community. we emphasize language, ensemble and challenging ideas.

Arts & Culture

The Beverly Theater Llc

Arts & Culture

Stray Cat Film Center

Arts & Culture

Block Island Film Festival

Arts & Culture

Sarasota Film Society Inc

Through numerous festivals and educational programs, coupled with fun and thought-provoking events, sarasota film society has continued its promise to provide the community with a longstanding commitment to outreach and education through…

Arts & Culture

Contemporary American Theater Festival

Theater and other contemporary arts

Arts & Culture

Constellation Stage & Screen Inc

The mission of Constellation Stage & Screen is to produce world-class theater and film that impacts the national performing arts industry through new work development. Constellation's productions, community events, and education programs…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Picture House and the most unlike its peers is Emerson College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/99

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,466

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.

03the grantee network

91 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

88/91

Grantees still filing

61/91

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$433,452Other$284,576Education$10,572Youth Development$5,286Community Improvement$5,286

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

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.

Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation IncMA78× affinity34 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc · Academy Foundation · Artsfund · Nebraska Humanities Council · 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 · Ibm International Foundation · American Express 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 organisation MICHIGAN THEATER 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE GRAND ILLUSION CINEMA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~22 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 134273973 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE GRAND ILLUSION CINEMA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 22 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Michigan Theater Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Michigan Theater Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

91 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Michigan Theater Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

91 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Michigan Theater Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph