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Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc

For austinites of every background, the long center is the community gathering place that offers the most diverse programming and stunning views of the city, so that together, everyone can experience remarkable live arts & entertainment.

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
223
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$282k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$15MEducation$1.1MYouth Development$1.1MHuman Services$638kRecreation & Sports$538kCivil Rights$500kHealth$210kPhilanthropy$192kCommunity Improvement$189kOther$8.4M
02FY2025 · 223 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 223 grants below total $13,398,098 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,115,270 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,717,172 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k93 grants · $2.9M
  • $50k–250k120 grants · $10M
  • $250k+1 grant · $282k
$54,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RALLY IN THE ALLEY LP$282,123
FISTERRA PROJECTS$226,750
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN$225,000
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE$222,000
PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY$171,458
THE MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT$160,250
UNLISTED PROJECTS$160,000
LA PENA INC$152,500
CINE LAS AMERICAS$150,000
CAPITAL CITY MEN'S CHORUS DBA AUSTIN GAY MEN'S CHORUS$150,000
HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY$145,323
OUTREACH PRODUCTIONS$145,000
GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE$143,500
AUSTIN AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOK FESTIVAL$142,500
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$140,946
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $572k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRAVE COMMUNITIES: $68k → 10%BRAVE COMMUNITIES: $38k → 10%FOLKLORE Y RITMOS DE PANAMA: $68k → 6%FOLKLORE Y RITMOS DE PANAMA: $62k → 6%ART SPARK TEXAS: $62k → 10%ART SPARK TEXAS: $27k → 10%AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE: $57k → 10%AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE: $27k → 10%SAIVA INC: $27k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $54k → 10%HOME STREET MUSIC: $57k → 10%HOME STREET MUSIC: $27k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 141 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

141 repeat relationships — 141 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 81 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141
80

Total granted

$22M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

81%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
    4× · 2022–2025 · $565k · revenue +3% · 36% of their budget
  • TL
    TORCH LITERARY ARTS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $377k · revenue +31% · 55% of their budget
  • WI
    WOMEN IN JAZZ ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $372k · revenue +17% · 77% of their budget

Funded once

  • SI
    SOUTHBAR INC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k
  • KB
    KICK BUTT COFFEE LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k
  • BL
    BARBARELLA LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
B Iden Payne Awards Council

Celebrating excellence in Austin Theatre

Arts & Culture
2
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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3
Artus Co

Provide low-cost facilities, support, programs, and educational venues for greater Austin Texas artist and craftspeople.

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4
Austin Dance Ensemble

Arts

Arts & Culture
5
South Austin Popular Culture Center

Collect and preserve Austin music related art and ephemera and then using those materials, create programming that educates the public about austins unique music culture and history

Arts & Culture
6
Mas Cultura

We are a bridge between Austins Latino artists and the resources they need to thrive. We ensure Latino communities have access to cultural programming and resources that inspire and educate and that our vibrant Latino culture remains a…

Arts & Culture
7
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…

Arts & Culture
8
Hopera

Hopera's mission is to produce live musical performances in unique Houston Area spaces that focus on and empower Houston Area artists. Our Pint-Sized Performance concert series empowers local musicians to create original programs that are…

Arts & Culture
9
Allen Parkway Arts Center Inc

APAC is a supporting organization to Stages, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization producing live theater.

Arts & Culture
10
Heritage Festivals of San Antonio

Sponsoring international folk dance and music events in San Antonio.

Arts & Culture
11
Texas Vignette

The mission of Texas Vignette is to promote, support, and connect women in the arts in Texas. In service of our mission, Texas Vignette presents an annual exhibition exclusively featuring works by women artists from Texas in order to…

Arts & Culture
12
Austin Street Corner Arts Collective

To facilitate enjoyable, collaborative, and engaging artist-driven opportunities through performance and other related forms; to educate children and adults about the value of the arts; to create and foster relationships between local…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Austin-Oita Sister City Committee. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAustin Community Organizati…Texas Policy & Advocacy Org…Professional Association Ne…Collegiate Fraternity Organ…Youth Sports & Activities B…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%16%<5yr14%24%5–10yr17%29%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr11%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%13%<5yr14%21%5–10yr17%28%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr11%4%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%8/303
the rest of the field
13%
1,113/8,648

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.

04the grantee network

175 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. 175 of the 303 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.

72
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/175
Grantees still filing
62/175
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT — $565,250 · Arts & Culture+103 more — $14,368,017 · Arts & Culture+103 moreHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY — $363,170 · OtherRALLY IN THE ALLEY LP — $282,123 · OtherHOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN — $257,800 · Other+69 more — $6,539,196 · Other+69 moreCine Las Americas — $435,000 · EducationRED SALMON ARTS — $236,000 · EducationAustin Chinese-American Network — $170,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC — $122,000 · EducationMADE MEDIA GROUP — $86,000 · EducationCLIFFORD ANTONE FOUNDATION — $66,000 · EducationE4 YOUTH INCORPORATED — $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOI COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $290,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATINITAS INC — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEADERSHIP AUSTIN — $138,875 · Youth DevelopmentUprise Circus — $85,442 · Youth DevelopmentFolklore Y Ritmos De Panama — $129,000 · Human ServicesBRAVE COMMUNITIES — $105,000 · Human ServicesArt Spark Texas — $89,000 · Human ServicesHOME STREET MUSIC — $84,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE — $84,000 · Human ServicesKIDS WRITE GOOD — $66,000 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE — $54,000 · Human ServicesPease Park Conservancy — $171,458 · Recreation & SportsTexas Book Festival — $131,191 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION — $124,800 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS ROCK AUSTIN — $111,000 · Recreation & SportsALLGO — $300,000 · Civil RightsAUSTIN INTERNATIONAL DRAG FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$14,933,267Other$7,442,289Education$1,115,000Youth Development$1,114,317Human Services$611,000Recreation & Sports$538,449Civil Rights$500,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT — $565,250 over 4y, 36% of budgetCine Las Americas — $435,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE — $422,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCapitol View Arts — $399,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetTORCH LITERARY ARTS — $376,500 over 3y, 55% of budgetPUERTO RICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE INC — $376,500 over 3y, 55% of budgetWOMEN IN JAZZ ASSOCIATION — $372,000 over 3y, 77% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY — $363,170 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetE4 YOUTH INCORPORATED — $350,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetVortex Repertory Company — $342,500 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $340,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetOUTREACH PRODUCTION — $335,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetLA PENA INC — $317,500 over 3y, 71% of budgetGLASS HALF FULL THEATRE — $305,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetALLGO — $300,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetINDIE MEME ORG — $293,300 over 2y, 91% of budgetROY LOZANOS BALLET FOLKLORICO DE TX — $290,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetJOI COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $290,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetPRESERVATION AUSTIN — $280,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetOUTSIDER FILM AND ARTS FESTIVAL — $277,300 over 3y, 77% of budgetESQUINA TANGO CULTURA SOCIETY — $277,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetICMCA — $260,000 over 3y, 97% of budgetMEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM — $260,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetFisterra Projects — $258,250 over 2y, 20% of budgetINDIA FINE ARTS INC — $254,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetAustin Asian American Film Festival — $250,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetLATINITAS INC — $250,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetImagine Art — $242,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetGerman-Texan Heritage Society — $240,684 over 2y, 33% of budgetAcademia De Danza y Folklore Mexicano Inc DBA Aztlan Dance Company — $236,000 over 3y, 92% of budgetRED SALMON ARTS — $236,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetCOLOR ARC PRODUCTIONS — $224,000 over 3y, 97% of budgetCenter for Women and Their Work Inc — $208,428 over 2y, 13% of budgetTARANADA — $206,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetDIVERSITY AWARENESS AND WELLNESS IN ACTION — $200,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetEARLY ERA COLLECTIVE — $185,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetUNLISTED PROJECTS — $185,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetTexas Folklife Resources — $185,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetAustin Chinese-American Network — $170,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetWHATSINTHEMIRROR — $170,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetBALLET EAST DANCE COMPANY Software error FY 10-1-2024-09-30-2025 — $170,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetCAPITAL CITY MENS CHORUS AUSTIN GAY MENS CHORUS — $165,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetCONNECTHER — $165,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDOWNTOWN AUSTIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $152,946 over 2y, 36% of budgetBABES FEST INC — $152,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTexas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts — $147,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetRANCHO ALEGRE RADIO — $145,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA — $142,506 over 2y, 17% of budget
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.

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.

Better Business BureauAustin Community Foun…The Applied Materials…United Way for Greate…The Webber Family Fou…Alice Kleberg Reynold…St David's FoundationStill Water FoundationMid-America Arts Alli…Eva & Marvin Womack F…JP's Peace Love & Hap…Humanities Texas
Better Business BureauTX171.8× affinity140 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Better Business Bureau · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Webber Family Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · St David's Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Mid-America Arts Alliance · Eva & Marvin Womack Foundation · JP's Peace Love & Happiness Foundation · Humanities Texas

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 Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 303 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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