Tennessee · Nonprofit
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,820,019 to it, the largest being HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND ($1,282,471). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation does
Mission
To hold, maintain, renovate and improve certain real property known as the historic tennessee theatre located in knoxville tennessee, in order to provide a performing arts venue for the community and other entities for historic and educational activities; to preserve and restore the historic tennessee theatre as a historical landmark; and to provide the general public with a greater awareness, appreciation and understanding of the theatrical performing arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operation and programming of a historic theatre to provide a facility for individuals, organizations, and activities in entertainment, the performing arts, and education.
$14,116,259 spent$14,006,524 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,116,259.
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 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $33M (+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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 59% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $212k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 87% · 2019 46% · 2020 85% · 2021 68% · 2022 37% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“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
42% of HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
99% of HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $514k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION?
- HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,820,019 to it, the largest being HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND ($1,282,471). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,820,019 in grants to HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION?
- HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,282,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION 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 23 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