Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC
THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,847,855 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($382,770). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What The Chatham Orpheum Theater Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to return cinema to our community by re-creating the chatham theater, formerly known as the orpheum theater. The orpheum was restored to the iconic and historic main street structure which housed the local movie theater from 1915-1985 as an art house cinema which offers a wide range of films, including children's programming, educational programming, independent films, documentaries, foreign films as well as contemporary and classic films, all currently under-represented in our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To operate and maintain the historic downtown theater in chatham, massachusetts.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $6.7M (+34%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 12% · 2021 59% · 2022 18% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $64k → $84k.
8 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
36% 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 THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 49% · 2019 46% · 2020 52% · 2021 43% · 2022 48% · 2023 30% — 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
52% of THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER 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 THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC?
- THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,847,855 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($382,770). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,847,855 in grants to THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $382,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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