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FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION

FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$402k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$7.2M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Fullerton Historic Theatre Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of the fhtf is to preserve and restore the historic fullerton fox theater so that it may serve as a place for performing arts and film and thereby provide a resource for local educational and charitable activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote the fox fullerton theatre purchase and restoration efforts and social events in the community to inform and procure support from the general public.

    $82,066 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $82,066.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($51k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($4.8M)2019 Revenue 376 ($192k) Expenses 158 ($66k) Net assets 103 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue -2 ($-779) Expenses 182 ($76k) Net assets 101 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 462 ($236k) Expenses 211 ($88k) Net assets 104 ($5.0M)2023 Revenue 3954 ($2.0M) Expenses 256 ($108k) Net assets 146 ($7.1M)2024 Revenue 261 ($133k) Expenses 451 ($190k) Net assets 145 ($7.0M)2025 Revenue 787 ($402k) Expenses 429 ($180k) Net assets 149 ($7.2M)
2018201920202022202320242025
Revenue (787)Expenses (429)Net assets (149)Peer revenue range

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 $11M to $14M (+23%).

$11M
$11M
$11M
$11M
$14M
$13M
$13M
2018201920202022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 35% · 2023 96% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

111% of FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’18
$125k
’19
−$77k
’20
$147k
’22
$1.9M
’23
−$57k
’24
$221k
’25
8.1
months of
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.

2018201920202022202320242025
Listed9997899
Joined·+0+0·+1+1+2
No longer listed·00·002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $1k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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

FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 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

89% of FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

46% of spending goes to programs.

Program 46%Management 49%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION?
FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $39,500 in grants to FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE FOUNDATION?
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FULLERTON HISTORIC THEATRE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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