Kansas · Nonprofit
COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION
COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,538 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation does
Mission
Restore the historic colonial fox theatre to be an enduring dynamic cultural center enriching the quality of life and economic vitality for pittsburg and surrounding communities
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To acquire, maintain and operate the historical colonial fox theatre building in pittsburg, ks, in order to be an enduring dynamic cultural center enriching the quality of life and the economic vitality for pittsburg and surrounding communities. To promote, conduct, and carry on charitable, cultural, recreational, and educational programs for the citizens of pittsburg, ks, and the surrounding communities. Also to promote the history and heritage of the community and its landmarks.
$139,970 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $139,970.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.5M to $2.8M (+12%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 77% · 2020 8% · 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $100k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 52% · 2021 38% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
14% of COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
58% of COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $186k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION: 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 COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION?
- COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,538 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $446,538 in grants to COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing