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National Performance Network Inc

National performance network contributes to a more just and equitable world by building artist' power; advancing racial and cultural justice in the arts; fostering relationship-building and reciprocity between individuals, institutions and communities; and working towards systems change in arts and philanthropy.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$7.2MCommunity Improvement$306kScience & Tech$94kCivil Rights$90kYouth Development$60kEducation$57kReligion$55kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $753,194, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,526,949 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $773,755 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 · $58k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $696k
$13,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS$30,000
REDLINE$29,000
7 STAGES$27,000
A TODO DAR PRODUCTIONS$26,000
ART2ACTION INC$26,000
THE FLOURISH ALABAMA$25,000
LA FACTORIA INC$23,000
CONTRA-TIEMPO$22,000
BISTOURY PHYSICAL THEATRE AND FILM CORP$22,000
PRODUCER HUB INC$22,000
ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM$21,000
BROWNBODY$19,000
PIONEER WINTER$19,000
GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS$19,000
BUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER$17,000
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 (FY17–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $21k → 21%Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc: $25k → 19%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHID SOCIETY: $25k → 33%Arab American National Museum: $20k → 21%Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc: $8k → 19%The Knights & Orchid Society: $8k → 33%TERRANCE M JOHNSON DANCE PROJECT: $14k → 14%Arab American National Museum: $10k → 21%Arab American National Museum: $10k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $9k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $7k → 21%GLOBALFEST: $5k → 17%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

AK
ME
VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 99 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

99 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
79

Total granted

$6.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+23%

Still filing today

78%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentCommunity 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

  • THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $290k · revenue +148%
  • ST
    SU TEATRO INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $257k · revenue +272%
  • SJ
    St Josephs Historic Foundation
    6× · 2018–2023 · $215k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • RL
    Ravizeenation LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • CT
    CANNECI TINNE APACHE TRIBE
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • AT
    A TODO DAR PRODUCTIONS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $38k
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
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
3
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
4
New Dance Alliance Inc

New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…

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5
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
6
Tigerlion Arts
Arts & Culture
7
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
8
United Artist Collaborative
Arts & Culture
9
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

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10
Nava Dance Theatre

Nava Dance Theatre uses the south Indian dance form as a medium for artistic reflection and discovery.

Arts & Culture
11
Global Arts Project Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Adele Myers and Dancers

Adele Myers and Dancers is a professional national touring dance theater company that suppports Miami-based dance artists at early stages of their careers by offering a commission for new work, mentorship, and performance opportunities in…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dance Place; the most unlike its peers is United Federation of Artistic Minds. 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

131 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. 131 of the 202 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/131
Grantees still filing
88/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $290,420 · Arts & CultureTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INCCOLEMAN CENTER BOARD OF THE CITY OF YORK TERM: $276,000 · Arts & CultureCOLEMAN CENTER BOARD OF THE CITY OF YORK TERMSU TEATRO INC: $257,095 · Arts & CultureMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $199,223 · Arts & CulturePangea World Theater: $198,900 · Arts & CultureLa Pea Cultural Center Inc: $175,238 · Arts & Culture+95 more: $3,745,354 · Arts & Culture+95 moreSt Josephs Historic Foundation: $215,000 · OtherSt Josephs Historic FoundationCARPETBAG THEATRE INC: $196,387 · OtherCARPETBAG THEATRE INCEJ Hill Studio LLC: $99,400 · OtherMIAMI LIGHT PROJECT INC: $98,449 · Other+80 more: $1,717,727 · Other+80 morePRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $110,198 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationBowdoin College: $17,000 · EducationColumbia College Chicago: $6,350 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $76,942 · Human ServicesFamily Counseling Center of Mobile Inc: $33,000 · Human ServicesTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesTerrance M Johnson Dance Project: $14,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $30,000 · Civil RightsSkylight Engagement Inc: $30,000 · Civil RightsYOUTH SPEAKS INC: $54,488 · Youth DevelopmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $30,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL SONORAN DESERT ALLIANCE: $22,360 · Environment
Arts & Culture$5,142,230Other$2,326,963Education$168,548Human Services$161,942Civil Rights$60,000Youth Development$54,488Environment$52,360

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $290,420 over 6y, 10% of budgetCOLEMAN CENTER BOARD OF THE CITY OF YORK TERM: $276,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetSU TEATRO INC: $257,095 over 5y, 23% of budgetSt Josephs Historic Foundation: $215,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $199,223 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetPangea World Theater: $198,900 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetLa Pea Cultural Center Inc: $175,238 over 7y, 17% of budgetCentral District Forum for Arts & Ideas: $161,432 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MYRNA LOY: $151,921 over 7y, 11% of budgetPORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $139,711 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetART2ACTION INC: $128,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $110,198 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE PLACE: $106,024 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute: $105,836 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $102,286 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFLOURISH ALABAMA: $100,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMIAMI LIGHT PROJECT INC: $98,449 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetSEVEN STAGES INC: $93,838 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetSANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD: $91,869 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetTHE YARD INC: $90,880 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION: $90,138 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $76,942 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANANYA DANCE THEATRE: $75,199 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetDIVERSEWORKS INC: $73,562 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetLINKS HALL INC: $71,154 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetMondo Bizarro Productions: $63,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetDIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR: $62,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS: $58,225 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED HOUMA NATION INC: $58,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRedline: $55,814 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $55,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SPEAKS INC: $54,488 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetContemporary Arts Center: $53,550 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC: $50,541 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetPAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC: $50,260 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC: $48,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER: $48,120 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $48,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $47,864 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: $47,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $43,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCARVER DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $41,550 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetHAMMONDS HOUSE MUSEUM INC: $40,919 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMulticultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts: $40,762 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $37,658 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $37,318 over 4y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLEMAN CENTER BOARD OF THE CITY OF YORK TERM ↗
  • Who funds SU TEATRO INC ↗
  • Who funds St Josephs Historic Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Pangea World Theater ↗
  • Who funds La Pea Cultural Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas ↗
  • Who funds THE MYRNA LOY ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds ART2ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JUNEBUG PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Native American Community Development Institute ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FLOURISH ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI LIGHT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN STAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY & THEATER RESEARCH LTD ↗
  • Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
  • Who funds ANANYA DANCE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds DIVERSEWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds LINKS HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Mondo Bizarro Productions ↗
  • Who funds DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR ↗
  • Who funds FRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HOUMA NATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Redline ↗
  • Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Contemporary Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗

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.

New England Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Map Fund IncDoris Duke Charitable…The Andy Warhol Found…The Ford FoundationSouth Arts IncDanceusaWestern States Arts F…The Howard Gilman Fou…Association of Perfor…
New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA135.9× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Map Fund Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · South Arts Inc · Danceusa · Western States Arts Federation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Association of Performing Arts Professionals

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 National Performance Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Performance Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
48report 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 202 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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