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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
Grants FY2020
35
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 103 grants below total $739,172, the rows itemized in this filing. The $782,259 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,087 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k102 grants · $539k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$5,286
Median grant
35
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$200,000
CAPITOL CIVIC CENTER$5,286
THE CAMPUS THEATRE$5,286
AMERICAN CINEMATIQUE$5,286
ARTSQUEST$5,286
RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY$5,286
OHIO UNIVERSITY$5,286
KENTWORTHY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE$5,286
MAYSLES INSTITUTE$5,286
FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER$5,286
THE STATE THEATRE$5,286
THE GRAND ILLUSION CINEMA$5,286
ENZIAN THEATER$5,286
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC$5,286
PICKFORD FILM CENTER$5,286
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LOFT CINEMA: $5k → 15%PROVINCETOWN FILM SOCIETY: $5k → 8%BRATTLE THEATRE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%MARTHAS VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY: $5k → 8%AMHERST CINEMA: $5k → 12%IMAGES CINEMA: $5k → 12%EMERSON COLLEGE: $5k → 16%FILM STREAMS: $5k → 12%WORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%KENTWORTHY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE: $5k → 16%TRYLON CINEMA TAKE-UP: $5k → 11%ZINEMA 2: $5k → 15%THE ROXY THEATER: $5k → 9%ASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATR: $5k → 6%BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%ARTSQUEST: $5k → 11%THE TULL FAMILY THEATER: $5k → 11%CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN: $5k → 11%THE CAMPUS THEATRE: $5k → 11%DIETRICH THEATER WYOMING: $5k → 12%THE FRIDA CINEMA: $5k → 10%MEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%OSIO THEATER FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%ECHO PARK FILM CENTER: $5k → 14%THE STATE THEATRE: $5k → 15%ARENA THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 18%PLAZAMAC INC: $5k → 7%UPSTATE FILMS LIMITED: $5k → 9%JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $5k → 9%NORTH PARK THEATRE OF BUFFALO INC: $5k → 13%THE LITTLE THEATRE: $5k → 14%CAPITOL CIVIC CENTER: $5k → 16%CINEMAPOLIS SEVENTH ART CORPORATION: $5k → 16%ROSENDALE THEATRE: $5k → 16%MAYSLES INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: $5k → 20%AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY: $5k → 10%14 PEWS: $5k → 16%CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%AVALON THEATER PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%CINEMATIQUE OF DAYTONA INC: $5k → 12%ENZIAN THEATER: $5k → 13%TAMPA THEATRE: $5k → 13%TROPIC CINEMA: $5k → 13%CORAL GABLES CINEMATIQUE INC: $5k → 15%THE WINTERSET IOWA THEATER: $5k → 7%FILMSCENE: $5k → 15%JANUS FILMS: $200k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cinema Detroit

Motion picture exhibition

Arts & Culture
2
Art Film Foundation

None

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3
Centre Film Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Film Society

The philadelphia film society (pfs) is the region's home for classic and contemporary film presentation, education, entertainment, and community building. a nonprofit, community-supported organization, pfs produces the acclaimed…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Green Valley Film & Art Center
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9
Film Forum Inc

Film forum's mission is two-fold: 1) to serve the general public by presenting the highest caliber of work to the widest possible audience - encouraging the appreciation of new, challenging films (both american and foreign films), and…

Arts & Culture
10
Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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11
Maine Film Center

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

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12
Antenna Theater
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Greenbelt Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Echo Park Film Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
79/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+82 more: $449,310 · Arts & Culture+82 moreIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+13 more: $68,718 · Other+13 moreEMERSON COLLEGE: $5,286 · EducationANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $5,286 · EducationSIFF: $5,286 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $5,286 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$449,310Other$268,718Education$10,572Youth Development$5,286Community Improvement$5,286

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 Theat…Academy FoundationArtsfundM J Murdock Charitabl…The Ford FoundationPpl FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Robert Wood Johns…Amalgamated Charitabl…Mightycause Charitabl…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michigan Theater Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Theater Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Producers Club of Md Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Provincetown Film Societyinc: 6% of income from government
  • Bendfilm Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Brattle Film Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Images Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Enzian Theater Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Cinematique of Daytona Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Coral Gables Cinemateque Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home