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Never constructed.", "official_website_verified": "2026-08-13", "short_description": "Inspired by its rich history, the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre serves as a home for creativity and connection, providing a welcoming space for world-class performances that enrich the cultural fabric of our desert community.", "about": "Inspired by its rich history, the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre serves as a home for creativity and connection, providing a welcoming space for world-class performances that enrich the cultural fabric of our desert community. The Foundation will raise funds and direct the restoration effort of this one-of-a-kind community facility. The state-of-the-art Plaza Theatre will once again become a major economic driver for the City by bringing hundreds of visitors and locals per week to the downtown to see quality entertainment. Our goal is to prepare this one-of-a-kind community facility for its \"Next Act\" by restoring most systems, installing new seats, sound, and lighting, adapting the structure to meet current ADA requirements, and providing the theatre with modern facilities needed to provide Palm Springs and the Valley with a venue accessible and affordable for everyone.\n\nThe theater will once again become a major economic driver for the City, generating millions in economic activity by bringing hundreds of visitors and locals per week to the downtown to see quality entertainment.\n\nWhen restored, the Plaza Theatre will be the only place available for the entire community to come together and utilize it as an affordable community venue showcasing diverse programming for all people, local youth organizations, promoting multicultural programming in film, music, live theater, education, comedy, and entertainment for all. It will also support and serve nonprofit organizations like the Palm Springs International Film Festival, ONE-PS, the Jessie O. James Desert Highland Unity Center, LGBTQ+ organizations, Arts groups, modernism-related events, our senior population, and others.", "description_source": "description as provided by the organization for CV Giving Day (via its Mightycause profile)", "description_retrieved": "2026-08-13", "mightycause_categories": [ "Arts & Culture" ], "keywords_provided_by_org": "Theater, theatre, arts, palm springs, performing arts, movies, community", "logo_url": "https://imagecdn.mightycause.com/43bfec50-d456-45dd-aa66-be830719295e/-/crop/4267x4268/426,0/-/preview/-/resize/1800x/-/sharp/5/", "primary_cause_reviewed": "Arts & Culture", "primary_cause_reviewed_source": "organization's own category selection on its CV Giving Day profile ('Arts & Culture')", "primary_cause_reviewed_date": "2026-08-13", "roster_status": "active", "participation_years": [ 2025, 2026 ], "participation_note": "years_covered scopes what is known. Absence of a year from participation_years does not mean the organization did not participate: 2023 and 2024 org-level records are not held. participation_years is derived from the CV Giving Day participant lists, matched on EIN.", "participation_provenance": { "2026": "Mightycause giving-event summary export (Registration Status = Approved)", "2025": "CV Giving Day 2025 approved-participant list, matched on EIN" }, "jsonld": { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NonprofitOrganization", "@id": "https://www.cvgiving.org/nonprofits/palm-springs-plaza-theatre-foundation/", "name": "Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation", "legalName": "PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATRE FOUNDATION", "taxID": "87-3813182", "nonprofitStatus": "Nonprofit501c3", "url": "https://www.palmspringsplazatheatre.com/foundation", "sameAs": [ "https://www.palmspringsplazatheatre.com/foundation" ], "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressLocality": "Palm Springs", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "description": "Inspired by its rich history, the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre serves as a home for creativity and connection, providing a welcoming space for world-class performances that enrich the cultural fabric of our desert community.", "foundingDate": "2022", "memberOf": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "CV Giving Day", "url": "https://www.cvgiving.org" }, "dateModified": "2026-08-19", "potentialAction": { "@type": "DonateAction", "name": "Donate to Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation", "target": "https://www.mightycause.com/organization/PlazaTheatre" } }, "canonical": "https://www.cvgiving.org/nonprofits/palm-springs-plaza-theatre-foundation/", "last_verified": "2026-08-19", "date_modified": "2026-08-19", "verified_statement": "Identity confirmed against IRS records. Participation confirmed against CV Giving Day registration. Public information compiled from the organization's own sources. Organizations that have indicated a preference against search indexing on their CV Giving Day registration are excluded from search indexing and from this site's sitemap. A cause may come from the organization's own category selection, from its IRS classification, or from CV Giving Day review; the source is always stated on the page and in this record." }