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John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

As the nation's performing arts center, and a living memorial to president john f.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$464k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$392kEmployment$184kPublic Benefit$63k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $825,267, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,876,835 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,051,568 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 $10k8 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $245k
  • $250k+1 grant · $464k
$8,426
Median grant
9
States reached
$901M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEVINE SCHOOL OF MUSIC$463,826
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA$167,391
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$77,763
ACTF MANAGEMENT LTD$39,000
BETHLEHEM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$13,000
SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING$11,944
THE SMITH CENTER FOR THE PERF ARTS$8,426
THEATER ALLIANCE OF WASHINGTON$7,675
THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER$7,000
DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF PINELLAS$6,295
WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY$6,178
ANDREW KEEGAN THEATRE$5,980
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,778
SCOTTSDALE ARTS$5,011
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION: $30k → 11%STATE OF MINNESOTA: $47k → 14%BETHLEHEM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 11%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $220k → 14%CORA CASH INC: $15k → 6%THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $27k → 17%EXPLORING THE ARTS IN CALIFORNIA: $56k → 20%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $78k → 14%THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY: $21k → 13%DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $24k → 10%MILWAUKEE BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS: $16k → 17%EUGENE O'NEIL THEATER CENTER: $28k → 9%BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $28k → 9%ARTSBUILD: $12k → 12%CITY OF PROVIDENCE: $21k → 14%ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $12k → 14%DAKOTA WEST ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20k → 10%RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FDN: $13k → 22%RENEW-REINVENTING EDUCATION: $17k → 23%IATSELOCAL 22 STAGEHANDS WELFARE PLAN: $100k → 8%STATE OF MINNESOTA: $29k → 14%TURANROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $176k → 14%EXPLORING THE ARTS IN CALIFORNIA: $32k → 20%HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC: $23k → 14%BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $12k → 10%O'NEIL THEATER CENTER: $20k → 9%BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $16k → 9%CITY OF PROVIDENCE: $15k → 14%LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $30k → 14%STATE OF MINNESOTA: $17k → 14%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $138k → 14%EXPLORING THE ARTS IN CALIFORNIA: $22k → 20%BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12k → 13%DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $22k → 10%BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $13k → 9%STATE OF MINNESOTA: $14k → 14%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $137k → 14%DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $16k → 10%TURANROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $112k → 14%DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $167k → 14%DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 10%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $63k → 14%DC Youth Orchestra Program: $15k → 14%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $47k → 14%LEVINE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $464k → 14%TURANROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $46k → 14%Levine Music INC: $15k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
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IL
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NY
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IA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 17 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$2.6M
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+52%

Still filing today

65%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TA
    TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $939k · revenue +243%
  • LM
    LEVINE MUSIC INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $479k · revenue +21%
  • DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
    2× · 2021–2025 · $182k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 22 - WELFARE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +213%
  • LT
    LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +57%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +292%
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
Center Stage Associates Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Arizona Theatre Company

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.

Arts & Culture
3
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
4
Local Theater Company

Engage audiences through innovative performances that spark camaraderie, learning, and contemplation, and provide a resourceful environment for theater artists to take creative risks and develop their work..

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
6
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Latino Theater Company

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
10
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
11
District of Columbia Arts Center

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…

Arts & Culture
12
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $938,988 · Arts & CultureTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIALEVINE MUSIC INC: $478,826 · Arts & CultureLEVINE MUSIC INCDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $182,391 · Arts & CultureDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAMACTF MANAGEMENT LTD: $162,700 · Arts & CultureACTF MANAGEMENT LTDEXPLORING THE ARTS INC: $121,600 · Arts & CultureEXPLORING THE ARTS INC+16 more: $213,289 · Arts & Culture+16 moreMINNESOTA ZOO: $156,269 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOOINTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 22 - WELFARE FUND: $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEAT…DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $97,319 · OtherDES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLSBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $93,818 · OtherBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLSMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $89,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLSGeorge Washington Univ School of Medicine - Dr Sidney Fu: $77,763 · OtherGeorge Washington Univ School o…PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $74,950 · OtherPROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENTTHE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY: $45,000 · Other+11 more: $122,788 · Other+11 moreRICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $34,693 · EducationBroward Education Foundation Inc: $30,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $19,000 · EducationRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $17,000 · EducationHUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC: $23,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,778 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$2,097,794Other$856,907Education$100,693Philanthropy$23,000Youth Development$5,778

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $938,988 over 8y, 18% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC: $478,826 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $182,391 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetACTF MANAGEMENT LTD: $162,700 over 5y, 10% of budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC: $121,600 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 22 - WELFARE FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $47,883 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $34,693 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $26,893 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC: $23,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDAKOTA WEST ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $15,776 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARTSBUILD: $12,494 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING: $11,944 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA: $8,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBlack Liberated Arts Center Inc: $7,800 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTheater Alliance of Washington DC: $7,675 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $6,178 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Andrew Keegan Theatre Company The Keegan Theatre: $5,980 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,778 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORLANDO FAMILY STAGE INC: $5,648 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ITHACA INC: $5,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTS: $5,011 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedShare Our StrengthI Car Education Found…Good Sports IncDigital Promise GlobalCornelia T Bailey Cha…Round It Up America I…The Shubert Foundatio…Project Lead the Way …Project Lead the Way …American Theatre Wing…Dollar General Litera…
GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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.
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How do I get to John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?

Find your warmest path to John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 46 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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