Arizona · Nonprofit
FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION
FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,846 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($137,503). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation does
Mission
The fox tucson theatre enlivens tucson, fostering community growth and connections by shaping exceptional, live arts experiences in a celebrated setting.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The historic fox tucson originally opened in 1930 as southern arizona's premier movie palace. Following a multi-year renovation project, it reopened as a spectacular live events facility on december 31, 2005. Listed on the national register of historic places and known throughout the u.s. As a theatre of rare beauty, the venue boasts one-of-a-kind southwestern art-deco decor and near perfect acoustics. Today, the beloved, state of the art facility offers a year-round mix of live entertainment across a wide range of disciplines, classic and contemporary film, community events, and education activities and performances serving nearly 100,000 annually and generating an economic impact of more than $7 million in downtown tucson. The fox is truly "the place to be," just as she was in 1930.
$4,947,081 spent$3,769,472 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,947,081.
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 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $12M (+18%).
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 14% · 2021 47% · 2022 46% · 2023 12% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Bonnie Schock
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $78k → $92k.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
59% 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 FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 57% · 2019 48% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 39% · 2023 22% — 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
42% of FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
61% of FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION 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 FOX TUCSON 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arizona Fox Theatre LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOX TUCSON 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 FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION?
- FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,846 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($137,503). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,206,846 in grants to FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $137,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing