Maryland · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC
FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,234 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($117,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $141k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Academy Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Maryland Humanities Council Incshared funders
- The Anonymous Fundportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC’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
FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
83% of FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 210 organizations that share them.
- Academy Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Humanities Council Incshared fundersMD · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- The Anonymous Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Downtown Greensboro Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Griffin Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Better Angels Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter Glenville Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyncote Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sakiyama Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denovo Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edgerton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prince George's Financial Services CorporationlocalMD · funds 153 organizations near you
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 FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116k on record.
- Grant$116k
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 FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC?
- FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,234 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($117,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $141,234 in grants to FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $117,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF GREENBELT THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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