Florida · Nonprofit
LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA
LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,411,833 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($760,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA holds deeper cash reserves 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.
- The University of the Artsshared funders
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio match
- Participant Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 63% · 2021 82% · 2022 66% · 2023 71% · 2024 38% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA’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. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $71k → $186k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA’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
LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% 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 LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
50% of LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
96% of LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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.
- The University of the Artsshared fundersPA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Participant Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Academy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funding Arts Broward Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Piece by Piece Productions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiespace Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Communications Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Map Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Henson 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.
Government funding LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record — $145k federal, $15k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$145k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $15k
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 LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA: 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 LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA?
- LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,411,833 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($760,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,411,833 in grants to LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $760,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING ARTS TRUST INC DBA O CINEMA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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