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Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc

Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,682 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.9M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$14M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc does

Mission

To operate and manage Paramount Theatre of the Arts, a historic Oakland California Landmark.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Paramount Theatre of the Arts, Inc. managed and operated the facility for the city of Oakland, providing a professionally operated facility for the production of events for the fiscal year ended 6/30/25, including concerts and Oakland Ballet.

    $3,284,631 spent$4,504,049 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,284,631.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($7.4M)2018 Revenue 185 ($4.5M) Expenses 151 ($3.6M) Net assets 111 ($8.2M)2019 Revenue 194 ($4.7M) Expenses 165 ($3.9M) Net assets 123 ($9.1M)2020 Revenue 146 ($3.6M) Expenses 134 ($3.2M) Net assets 123 ($9.1M)2021 Revenue 91 ($2.2M) Expenses 43 ($1.0M) Net assets 154 ($11M)2022 Revenue 207 ($5.0M) Expenses 134 ($3.2M) Net assets 168 ($12M)2023 Revenue 165 ($4.0M) Expenses 161 ($3.9M) Net assets 173 ($13M)2024 Revenue 174 ($4.2M) Expenses 154 ($3.7M) Net assets 185 ($14M)2025 Revenue 241 ($5.9M) Expenses 169 ($4.0M) Net assets 195 ($14M)
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Revenue (241)Expenses (169)Net assets (195)Peer revenue range

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 $10M to $13M (+25%).

$9.2M
$9.4M
$11M
$10M
$13M
$15M
$16M
$15M
$17M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 86% · 2022 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’17
$890k
’18
$784k
’19
$354k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$1.8M
’22
$153k
’23
$537k
’24
$1.8M
’25
12
months of
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.

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Listed101111109991010
Joined·+1+1+1+1+1+1+2+0
No longer listed·01221110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $12k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc’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

Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

56% of Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $977k on record.

Federal$977k
grants $0contracts $977k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$977k

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 Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc?
Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,682 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,682 in grants to Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc?
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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