Tennessee · Nonprofit
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $805k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Historic Tennessee Theatre Endowment Fund does
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to establish and maintain an endowment fund to preserve and maintain the facilities of the tennessee theatre established in 1928 in knoxville, tennessee in order that the historic tennesssee theatre foundation may continue its charitable purposes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of this organization is to establish and maintain an endowment fund to preserve and maintain the facilities of the tennessee theatre established in 1928 in knoxville, tennessee in order that the historic tennessee theatre foundation may continue its charitable purposes.
$468,573 spentof which $468,573 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $468,573.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.7M to $6.0M (+61%).
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.
67% of HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.
From the IRS filings of HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND’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.
Where its funders are
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND: 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 HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND?
- HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND 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.
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 1 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