Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,212 to it, the largest being THE H GLENN SAMPLE JR MD MEMORIAL FUND ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $342k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $616k
What Theatre Historical Society of America Inc does
Mission
Document the architectural, cultural and social history of americas theatres and promote awareness, appreciation and serious study of them. Serve as a resource for members, researchers, architects, preservationists and other activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In September 2023, the organization sold the Hollywood Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA along with other related assets.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Publications promotions-the program preserves and showcases the classic filmgoing experience and also presents educational programs and lobby displays.
$3,890 spent28% of program spendingArchives collections - contains information on over 16,000 theatres both domestic and international spanning nearly every style and period of theatre architecture. Composed of photographs, negatives, slides, postcards, artists renderings, scrapbooks, books, periodicals, business records, blueprints and architectural artifacts, theatre furnishings, ushers uniforms, and numerous other items.our collections relate to theatre buildings and their cultural and social history.
$9,864 spent72% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,754.
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 $310k to $622k (+101%).
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: 2019 17% · 2021 33% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $40.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 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
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
83% of THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212 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.
Against its field
THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC?
- THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,212 to it, the largest being THE H GLENN SAMPLE JR MD MEMORIAL FUND ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,212 in grants to THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC?
- THE H GLENN SAMPLE JR MD MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 3 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