Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,250,926 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($2,169,282). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc does
Mission
To entertain, inform, and engage - building a vital community through film culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The coolidge corner theatre foundation, inc. Is an independent art house cinema, community asset and cultural institution that has played a significant role in the town of brookline and the greater boston area since its inception in 1933.in addition to screening the best of first run independent narrative and documentary feature films, the coolidge offers a wide range of special programming, including: science on screen, the sounds of silents, big screen classics, after midnite, panorama, rewind, cinema jukebox, shakespeare reimagined, kids' shows, box office babies, broadcasts of productions from london's national theatre, operas and dance performances from acclaimed theatres throughout the world, pre- and post-screening discussions with filmmakers and other talent, and film education courses. The coolidge also presents outdoor screenings in partnership with other nonprofit entities.
$7,455,913 spent$6,747,571 earned by the program96% of program spendingScience on screen pairs popular films with discussions by notable figures in science, technology and medicine. In 2010, the coolidge received a grant from the alfred p. Sloan foundation to expand the program nationally through partnerships with other nonprofit organizations. Since 2010, sloan has awarded the coolidge $5.6 million to develop and administer science on screen programs around the us.the coolidge has in turn awarded grants totaling over $3 million to 140 film and science-focused organizations in 45 states (plus washington, dc) across the country to create and present their own science on screen programs.
$334,589 spentof which $252,400 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,790,502.
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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $29M (+67%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 13% · 2022 26% · 2023 5% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Katherine Tallman
Executive director
Board chair
David Rosenthal
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $508k → $2.2M.
17 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 32% · 2019 75% · 2020 40% · 2021 24% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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
54% of COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,250,926 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($2,169,282). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $8,250,926 in grants to COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,169,282 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 58 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