Arizona · Nonprofit
ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC
ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,666 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($58,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $321k
What Abt Performing Arts Association Inc does
Mission
ABT Performing Arts Association enriches lives through the power of the performingarts by producing live theatre and other high-quality entertainment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During its milestone 20th season, which ended September 30, 2025, ABT PerformingArts Association reached nearly 100,000 people through its nonprofit performing arts, education, and community programming. As a nonprofit professional theatre serving the West Valley and the Greater Phoenix metropolitan area, ABT provides high-quality entertainment and live performing arts experiences while creating opportunities for education, artistic development, youth programming, and community access.During the fiscal year, ABT presented seven professional mainstage productions, 36tribute band and concert series performances, five Encore Room limited engagements,eight murder mystery events, and a fundraising gala that brought together ABT patrons and donors. Through this diverse programming, ABT provided thousands of residents with opportunities to experience professional live performance in their community while supporting the work and development of professional artists, actors, musicians, technicians, designers, educators, producers, directors, chorographers, and other theatre professionals.Arts education and youth programming represented a significant part of ABTs nonprofit impact. Four…
$8,902,898 spentof which $29,058 as grants$9,506,149 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,902,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.5M to $9.4M (+173%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 46% · 2022 21% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kiel F Klaphake
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $6k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 45% · 2019 45% · 2020 49% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $61k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC's revenue grew 49% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC?
- ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,666 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($58,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $160,666 in grants to ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $58,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABT PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing