California · Nonprofit
HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST
HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being EDWARD D AND ANNA MITCHELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasotashared funders
- Hollywood Foreign Press Associationportfolio match
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation 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.
99% of HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST’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
HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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.
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.
- Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasotashared fundersFL · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- Hollywood Foreign Press Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert H Lorsch Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Bloom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artistsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David Sen Lin Lee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Green Oak Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Grosvenor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steven and Kelly McLeod Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cecil B de Mille Foundationportfolio 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.
Organizations like HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST
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
55%
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 HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST: 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 HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST?
- HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being EDWARD D AND ANNA MITCHELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST?
- EDWARD D AND ANNA MITCHELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLLYWOOD SIGN TRUST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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