California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION
FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,913 to it, the largest being Napa Valley Festival Association ($136,576). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fundlocal
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio match
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio match
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.
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 3% · 2018 6% · 2019 3% · 2020 27% · 2021 99% · 2022 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $45k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN 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
FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 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
100% of FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community FundlocalCA · funds 37 organizations near you
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nac Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pearle Francis Finigan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lane Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arrowhead Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norman Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tri-M Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council Santa Cruz Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Department of Defense$6k
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 LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN 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.
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 LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION?
- FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,913 to it, the largest being Napa Valley Festival Association ($136,576). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $201,913 in grants to FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION?
- Napa Valley Festival Association is the largest funder on record, with $136,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN 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.
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 4funders 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