California · Nonprofit
Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation
Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,186,066 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,095,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation does
Mission
To establish an endowment through donations, grants, and gifts for the restoration and future maintenance of The Plaza Theatre located in and owned by the City of Palm Springs California. Funds raised will also be used to promote ongoing cultural and recreational services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, the organizations sole program was to raise the initial funds needed to restore the Theatre building. No other programs were undertaken and all expenses incurred were in service of the capital raise.
$1,009,815 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,009,815.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.8M to $10M (+73%).
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: 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $3.6M → $2.1M.
12 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 98% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation'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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Palm Springs Plaza 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Palm Springs Plaza 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 Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation?
- Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,186,066 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,095,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $7,186,066 in grants to Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,095,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing