South Carolina · Nonprofit
AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY
AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,300 to it, the largest being ESTHER GORDY BULLOCK EDWARDS FOUNDATION ($14,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $-439713
What Aiken Performing Arts Academy does
Mission
The apaa created to provide 9th thru 12th grade high school students with unique learning opportunities in the performing and visual arts.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Apaa is a public, non-profit, charter high school which services any 9th-12th grade students residing in aiken county. Apaa offers a traditional college prep curriculum and ap classes, along with classes in the arts. Sc state standards: students are required to take and pass the hsap exam for a state diploma.all 9th-12th grade students with an interest in the performing arts are welcome to apply for enrollment at apaa.there were 57 students enrolled during the 2016-17 school year.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $1.8M (+36%).
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: 2017 96% · 2018 99% · 2019 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY’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.
Where its funders are
AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lloyd Kennedy Charter School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY?
- AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,300 to it, the largest being ESTHER GORDY BULLOCK EDWARDS FOUNDATION ($14,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,300 in grants to AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY.
- Who is the largest funder of AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY?
- ESTHER GORDY BULLOCK EDWARDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AIKEN PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 1 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