Tennessee · Nonprofit
HATTILOO THEATRE
HATTILOO THEATRE (Tennessee) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,812,984 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($2,245,713). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Hattiloo Theatre does
Mission
Hattiloo Theatre is dedicated to cultivation and appreciation of the black drama arts and is established to develop a black theatre that is accessble, reflective and relevant of the multicultural community for memphis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hattiloo Theatre was founded in 2006, in memphis tn in a storefront. Hattiloo Theatre produces annual seasons of seven plays/musicals that provide audiences a contextual understanding of black life. Rooted in black storytelling, hattiloo's activities are a diametrical response to american theatre that has largely and historically been conceived as a white american art form designed to tell the stories of white americans. Hattiloo's programs shift inaccuracies around black identity, while showcasing the best that black theatre has to offer.hattiloo is one of seven free-standing black theatres in the nation, and the only one in the mid south. As such, it serves as the preeminent supportive space for southern black artists to hone their talents as they articulate the struggle, triumph, and beauty of black life through their craft. Hattiloo uses the power of unapologetic black storytelling to empower residents who live in "cultural deserts", whose voices deepen the region's cultural narrative. Hattiloo also serves as a beacon of cultural progress in memphis, challenging some misconceptions of what it means to be southern and black.
$1,500,019 spent$333,978 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,500,019.
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 $5.0M to $6.4M (+28%).
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 8% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of HATTILOO THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Ekundayo Bandele
Executive director
Board chair
Faith Morris
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $113k → $581k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 HATTILOO THEATRE’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
HATTILOO THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 HATTILOO THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 62% · 2019 63% · 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 64% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of HATTILOO THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
63% of HATTILOO THEATRE'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HATTILOO THEATRE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HATTILOO THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $135k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$135k
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 HATTILOO THEATRE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 HATTILOO THEATRE: 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 HATTILOO THEATRE?
- HATTILOO THEATRE (Tennessee) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,812,984 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($2,245,713). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HATTILOO THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,812,984 in grants to HATTILOO THEATRE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HATTILOO THEATRE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,245,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HATTILOO THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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