Wisconsin · Public charity
United Performing Arts Fund Inc
The mission of the united performing arts fund, inc. As an umbrella fundraising organization is to secure community resources and improve the quality of life through responsible investment in and financial support of the performing arts in southeastern wisconsin. Specifically:1. Raise much needed funds to ensure entertainment…
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,602,071
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations United Performing Arts Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $7.0M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $7.9M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $8.0M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $8.6M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $7.1M | 12% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $7.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $9.0M | 8% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $9.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $15,616,834 | 8 | 11% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $13,520,313 | 8 | 18% |
| Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc | $7,607,662 | 8 | 15% |
| First Stage Milwaukee | $6,959,906 | 8 | 21% |
| Florentine Opera Company Inc | $5,414,734 | 8 | 29% |
| Skylight Music Theatre Corp | $3,936,220 | 8 | 21% |
| Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc | $3,181,519 | 8 | 18% |
| Danceworks Inc | $1,438,126 | 8 | 23% |
| Renaissance Theaterworks Inc | $1,170,831 | 8 | 28% |
| Next Act Theatre Inc | $1,101,060 | 8 | 19% |
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Where it is load-bearing
United Performing Arts Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd
How this is measured
About United Performing Arts Fund Inc
- How much does United Performing Arts Fund Inc give?
- United Performing Arts Fund Inc reported 30 grants totaling $6,093,976 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does United Performing Arts Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%), Health (0%).
- Who are United Performing Arts Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc ($16M), Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc ($14M), Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc ($7.6M).
- Does United Performing Arts Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Performing Arts Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable.
- Where is United Performing Arts Fund Inc based?
- United Performing Arts Fund Inc is based in WI.
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