· Public charity
Association of Performing Arts Professionals
The ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS develops and supports a robust performing art presenting, booking, and touring field and the professionals who work in it.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $2,015,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,065,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k19 grants · $665k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MADISON PROJECT DBA THE BROAD STAGE | $50,000 |
| JAPAN SOCIETY INC | $50,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES (ACCESS) | $50,000 |
| LINKS HALL INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $50,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CORTEZ CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| GRAND PERFORMANCES | $50,000 |
| QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK INC | $50,000 |
| MIAMI DADE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| DANSPACE PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Cowles Center2× · 2020–2022 · $57k · revenue -49%
- MAMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue -26%
THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TCThe Cedar Cultural Center Incone grant, 2017 · $168k · revenue -38%
- SUState University of Iowaone grant, 2017 · $102k
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $102k · revenue +28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
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Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
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The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
We connect audiences with exceptional artists through diverse performances and learning experiences. we ignite and cultivate passion for the performing arts to create community, inspire dialogue and enrich our world.
To create arts in diverse experiences that engage the community though the development of new and exciting cultural initiatives for the community; the encouragement of active participation and cooperation of the government, business,…
The mission of the Washington Center is to inspire audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community. The Washington center for the performing arts was created from a belief that a…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
We are a non-profit that creates positive change through the arts by bringing together people, businesses and organizations to create and enjoy cultural experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Works and Process Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Catherine University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Cedar Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Cowles Center ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MADISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ODC THEATER ↗
- Who funds CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAPAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Alabama Dance Council ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LINKS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORKS AND PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds GRAND PERFORMANCES ↗
- Who funds Yerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival ↗
- Who funds World Arts West ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACK PLACE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FUSE BOX AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD ↗
- Who funds GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ARTS MKE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · National Performance Network Inc · New Music USA Inc · The Ford Foundation · South Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Western States Arts Federation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Association of Performing Arts Professionals funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fundarte Inc — 5% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- White Bird — 2% of income from government
- Boom Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.