Georgia · Nonprofit
PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,891 to it, the largest being FOX THEATRE INC F/K/A ATLANTA LANDMARKS INC ($100,580). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Plaza Theatre Foundation Inc does
Mission
Since 1939, the plaza theatre has been both a classic art-deco landmark and a cornerstone of the poncey-highland community in atlanta, ga. Designed by architect geroge harwell bond, it is the last cinema of its kind in atlanta, as well as, the oldest continuously operating locally-owned cinema in the city. The foremost priority of the plaza theatre foundation is to restore, preserve and share atlanta's historic plaza theatre for the artistic, educational, and charitable benefit of its community. It achieves this purpose by encouraging and promoting the activities of the plaza theater. It also raises funds to enhance the space by restoration and renovations and supplement the operation expenses when necessary.the foundation networks with local and student filmmakers to provide the unique opportunity for them to showcase their films in front of a live audience at a working, established movie theater.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
The foremost priority of the plaza theatre foundation is to keep the historic plaza theatre alive and open as a place for great films and to enhance the space by restoration and renovations. Film events included a summer series of films celebrating their 20 and 30-year anniversaries. The foundation also hosted several film festivals partnerships with local organizations such as wonderroot, the atlanta film society and asifa-atlanta.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $25k to $19k (−24%).
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.
58% of PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $38k → $68k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION 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
PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
80% of PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,234 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,234 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2018
Organizations like PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: 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 PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,891 to it, the largest being FOX THEATRE INC F/K/A ATLANTA LANDMARKS INC ($100,580). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $145,891 in grants to PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- FOX THEATRE INC F/K/A ATLANTA LANDMARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 4 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