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.

United Performing Arts Fund Inc

United Performing Arts Fund Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Performing Arts Fund Inc

The mission of the united performing arts fund, inc.

$6.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.6M

Largest

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$64MHealth$30k

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $74k
$10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
$250k+7 grants · $5.9M

$16,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER	$1,602,071
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$1,360,334
MILWAUKEE BALLET	$809,663
FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE	$734,983
FLORENTINE OPERA	$579,034
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$436,136
SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE	$328,666
PRESENT MUSIC	$191,642
DANCEWORKS	$171,860
RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS	$168,238
BLACK ARTS MILWAUKEE	$166,667
NEXT ACT THEATRE	$140,829
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE	$118,390
BEL CANTO CHORUS	$60,147
KID'S FROM WISCONSIN	$16,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$64M · 35 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$64M

$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

+11%

Still filing today

91%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +91%
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +5%
FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +38% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

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MILWAUKEE PUBLIC THEATRE INC
one grant, 2017 · $26k
TR
THE RAUCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +450%
LG
Lake Geneva Symphony Orchstra Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +86%

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.

Milwaukee Community Orchestra Inc

Orchestral program for communit

Arts & Culture

Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Wind Symphony

Arts & Culture

Madison Public Theatre

Community theatre.

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Chamber Opera of Chicago

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Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc

Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture

Oconomowoc Community Theatre Inc

Oconomowoc Community Theatre enriches the community through live theatrical productions, providing opportunities for local performers and volunteers while promoting the arts.

Arts & Culture

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society of Wisconsin Inc

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society of Wisconsin's primary purpose is to bring together world-class performing artists to create cutting-edge musical events that present chamber music as serious fun to audiences.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc

Milwaukee ballet transforms lives and connects communities through inspiring performance, community engagement, education and training.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Jazz Festival Inc

Arts & Culture

Minneapolis Musical Theatre Inc

Providing community affordable access to rare musicals

Arts & Culture

Midwest Mozart Festival Inc

Provide community concerts and youth music education.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee; the most unlike its peers is Xalaat Africa Drum & Dance for Life. 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

43 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. 43 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/43

Grantees still filing

26/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$58,281,011Other$6,012,672Philanthropy$23,500

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

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI62.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Performing Arts Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Performing Arts Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home