· Public charity
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
As the nation's performing arts center, and a living memorial to president john f.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $230,717 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,393,990 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,163,273 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURANROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA | $111,500 |
| ACTF MANAGEMENT LTD | $37,000 |
| O'NEIL THEATER CENTER | $20,040 |
| MINNESOTA DEPT OF EDUCATION | $11,577 |
| DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COM SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,200 |
| MILWAUKEE BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS | $8,000 |
| EXPLORING THE ARTS INC | $8,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $6,400 |
| BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CITY OF PROVIDENCE | $6,000 |
| THE PLAYWRIGHT'S CENTER | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TATURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA8× · 2017–2024 · $939k · revenue +243%
- AMACTF MANAGEMENT LTD4× · 2021–2024 · $124k · revenue +183%
- RPRICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +331%
Funded once
- IAINTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 22 - WELFARE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +213%
- LTLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +57%
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +292%
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.
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…
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
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…
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
The repertory theatre of st. louis creates bridges between people in the st. louis region and beyond through expertly crafted theatrical experiences that are joyful, unique, inspiring, and thought-provoking.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orlando Family Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Liberated Arts Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 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.
24 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. 24 of the 37 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 TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ACTF MANAGEMENT LTD ↗
- Who funds EXPLORING THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 22 - WELFARE FUND ↗
- Who funds EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Broward Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WEST ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Black Liberated Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO FAMILY STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ITHACA 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: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Share Our Strength · I Car Education Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Digital Promise Global · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Round It Up America Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · American Theatre Wing Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation
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 John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 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.
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center 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.
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