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THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC

THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,819 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($350,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$939k
Revenue FY2025
38
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
27/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 96%

Against its field

THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve26.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($299k) Expenses 100 ($480k) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 86 ($258k) Expenses 110 ($527k) Net assets 98 ($11M)2019 Revenue 121 ($362k) Expenses 113 ($543k) Net assets 96 ($11M)2020 Revenue 114 ($340k) Expenses 103 ($496k) Net assets 95 ($11M)2021 Revenue 145 ($432k) Expenses 108 ($519k) Net assets 94 ($10M)2022 Revenue 50 ($148k) Expenses 117 ($563k) Net assets 90 ($10M)2023 Revenue 236 ($705k) Expenses 105 ($505k) Net assets 92 ($10M)2024 Revenue 107 ($320k) Expenses 103 ($496k) Net assets 91 ($10M)2025 Revenue 314 ($939k) Expenses 121 ($580k) Net assets 94 ($10M)
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Revenue (314)Expenses (121)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range

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

91% of THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$181k
17
$269k
18
$181k
19
$156k
20
$87k
21
$415k
22
$200k
23
$176k
24
$360k
25
27
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $111k → $276k.

1 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $685k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

23%
largest funder
56%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 35% · 2019 31% · 2020 46% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 54%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.

How long its funders stay

30% of THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

NY
OH
PA
CT
VA
DE
NC
SC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC

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 Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 9%Fundraising 11%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Paramount Theater Of · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT 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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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 THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC?
THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,819 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($350,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,495,819 in grants to THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC?
THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38funders 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