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AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC

AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,896,818 to it, the largest being ROYCE FAMILY FUND INC ($1,943,294). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.7M
Revenue FY2025
59
Funders on record
$3.9M
Grants received
$9.2M
Net assets
36/59 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin74% · top quartile
Months of reserve28.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($315k)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.1M) Net assets 94 ($297k)2019 Revenue 97 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.1M) Net assets 73 ($229k)2020 Revenue 96 ($1.1M) Expenses 119 ($1.3M) Net assets 4 ($14k)2021 Revenue 66 ($741k) Expenses 76 ($816k) Net assets -19 ($-60604)2022 Revenue 126 ($1.4M) Expenses 95 ($1.0M) Net assets 103 ($324k)2023 Revenue 92 ($1.0M) Expenses 111 ($1.2M) Net assets 47 ($149k)2024 Revenue 474 ($5.3M) Expenses 134 ($1.4M) Net assets 1267 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 605 ($6.7M) Expenses 165 ($1.8M) Net assets 2923 ($9.2M)
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Revenue (605)Expenses (165)Net assets (2923)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 18% · 2022 47% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
17
$13k
18
$65k
19
$215k
20
$75k
21
$385k
22
$175k
23
$3.8M
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$5.0M
25
28
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $24k → $1.8M.

10 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC.

50%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 47% · 2019 50% · 2020 65% · 2021 30% · 2022 48% · 2023 83%growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

39% of AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

90% of AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 59 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $161k on record.

State$161k
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Top programs
  • State Aid Grants$152k
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$9k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 12%Fundraising 28%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

69%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC?
AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,896,818 to it, the largest being ROYCE FAMILY FUND INC ($1,943,294). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $3,896,818 in grants to AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC?
ROYCE FAMILY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,943,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 59funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing