California · Nonprofit
FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION
FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,500 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $214k
- Net assets
- $283k
What Fox Riverside Theater Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Fox Riverside Theater Foundation is to advance the efforts of the fox performing arts center to serve and enhance the city of riverside by bringing the fox performing arts center to under-served communities in our local region, seeking to enrich the lives of those we serve through community-focused performances and outreach, promoting investment in our cultural community by assuring many premier quality entertainment and enrichment opportunities are easily accessible to the public, and educating local youth on both performance arts and technical production involved with live theater performances.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The specific purposes of the foundation are to: (1) aid, sponsor, promote, advance, educate and assist in improving the cultural and recreational services to the residents of the city of riverside through the fox performing arts center, a public resource owned by the city; (2) to provide access to the beauty and thrill of live performing arts to everyone, inspiring community residents to become patrons of the arts and supporting local students of all ages in pursuing careers both on stage and behind the scenes; and (3) to educate the community about the invaluable cultural asset in our region that is the fox performing arts center, encouraging investment in our local cultural community through endowment that will both improve access to cultural and recreational programs to the residents of the city, and assist in supporting theater renovation and maintenance.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2021 to 2022, from $397k to $353k (−11%).
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.
88% of FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cynthia Wright
Executive director
Board chair
Ellie Bennett
Fund development chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $25k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER 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
FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 80% · 2020 42% · 2021 82% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER 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 FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION?
- FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,500 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $213,500 in grants to FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION?
- E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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