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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$24MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MCommunity Improvement$846kYouth Development$685kHuman Services$338kCivil Rights$300kRecreation & Sports$296kHealth$210kOther$0
02FY2025 · 223 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 223 grants below total $13,398,098, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,115,270 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,717,172 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

82%
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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KB
    KICK BUTT COFFEE LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k
  • BL
    BARBARELLA LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k
  • AN
    AUSTIN NIGHTLIFE LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Teatro Audaz San Antonio

Teatro Audaz cultivates Latinx creatives, stories and talent on stage and in the classroom through innovative theater and community programs.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Austin Dance Ensemble

Arts

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
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
11
Allen Parkway Arts Center Inc

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

Arts & Culture
12
Heritage Festivals of San Antonio

Sponsoring international folk dance and music events in San Antonio.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

177 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 177 of the 303 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

76
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
171/177
Grantees still filing
63/177
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT: $565,250 · Arts & Culture+104 more: $14,500,017 · Arts & Culture+104 moreHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $363,170 · OtherRALLY IN THE ALLEY LP: $282,123 · OtherHOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: $257,800 · Other+68 more: $6,407,196 · Other+68 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 ServicesAUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE: $84,000 · Human ServicesHOME STREET MUSIC: $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$15,065,267Other$7,310,289Education$1,115,000Youth Development$1,114,317Human Services$611,000Recreation & Sports$538,449Civil Rights$500,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 1.1% of budgetCapitol View Arts: $399,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetPUERTO RICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE INC: $376,500 over 3y, 55% of budgetTORCH LITERARY ARTS: $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, 52% of budgetALLGO: $300,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetINDIE MEME ORG: $293,300 over 2y, 91% of budgetJOI COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $290,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetROY LOZANOS BALLET FOLKLORICO DE TX: $290,000 over 3y, 43% 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 budgetLATINITAS INC: $250,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAustin Asian American Film Festival: $250,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetImagine Art: $242,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetGerman-Texan Heritage Society: $240,684 over 2y, 33% of budgetRED SALMON ARTS: $236,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetAcademia De Danza y Folklore Mexicano Inc DBA Aztlan Dance Company: $236,000 over 3y, 92% of budgetCOLOR ARC PRODUCTIONS: $224,000 over 3y, 97% of budgetCenter for Women and Their Work Inc: $208,428 over 2y, 14% of budgetTARANADA: $206,000 over 3y, 80% of budgetDIVERSITY AWARENESS AND WELLNESS IN ACTION: $200,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetUNLISTED PROJECTS: $185,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetTexas Folklife Resources: $185,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetEARLY ERA COLLECTIVE: $185,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetPease Park Conservancy: $171,458 over 1y, 11% of budgetBALLET EAST DANCE COMPANY Software error FY 10-1-2024-09-30-2025: $170,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetAustin Chinese-American Network: $170,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetWHATSINTHEMIRROR: $170,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetCONNECTHER: $165,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCAPITAL CITY MENS CHORUS AUSTIN GAY MENS CHORUS: $165,000 over 2y, 41% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 303 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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