Texas · Nonprofit
ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION
ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,023 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY LEAGUE ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $666k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Alamo City Performing Arts Association does
Mission
Alamo City Performing Arts Association is dedicated to inclusive education in the art of dance, theater and music; in order to help instill and perpetuate a genuine appreciation of the performing arts in our community through educational and performance opportunities alongside professional artist. It is our initiative to support Alamo City Dance Company, Alamo Symphony Viva, The Heart of Texas Concert Band, Memory Lane Dance Band productions, as well as Alamo City Arts Academy, Alamo City Mariachi Academy, Alamo City Stage Company, and Alamo City Ballet Folklorico.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Arts Connect: Student Concert Series brings high-quality, TEKS-aligned music and dance performances directly to schools, removing transportation and financial barriers that often prevent students from experiencing the performing arts. Designed to complement classroom learning, the series engages students through live music, movement, and storytelling while supporting auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles. For many children, these performances provide their first experience with live professional performing arts, fostering creativity, cultural appreciation, and a lifelong appreciation for the arts. During 2025, the program presented three educational productions: Scheherazade, featuring a Paint to Music activity that connected music and visual arts; Viva Mariachi, celebrating Hispanic cultural traditions through mariachi music and ballet folklórico; and Disney Magic, a concert band performance featuring familiar, family-friendly repertoire. Through multiple performances of each production, the Arts Connect: Student Concert Series reached more than 9,000 students, making high-quality arts education accessible and inspiring thousands of young learners across the community.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Nutcracker - 33nd Annual Production (Our Lady of the Lake University) presented by Alamo City Arts. This classical holiday tale features a cast of more than 75 performers dancing over 150 roles, all accompanied by live orchestration from Alamo City Symphony Viva. Each year, we reserve 25 percent of our tickets for VetTix, a national nonprofit that provides free event tickets to active-duty military, veterans, and their families as a way to honor their service. We're proud to partner with VetTix so more military families can enjoy the magic of this production.
$53,674 spent$72,949 earned by the program12% of program spendingEva's Heroes Nutcracker is an inclusive, sensory-friendly production presented through a partnership between Alamo City Arts, Alamo City Dance Company, and Eva's Heroes. Created in 2019 at the request of Eva's Heroes, the production provides individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to rehearse and perform alongside experienced dancers in a welcoming and supportive environment. In 2025, the production expanded to present the complete, full-length story of The Nutcracker for the first time, featuring 40 participants from Eva's Heroes performing alongside members of Alamo City Dance Company and the community cast. Lighting and sound levels were thoughtfully adapted to create a sensory-friendly environment while preserving the artistry and magic of the ballet. By removing barriers to participation and attendance, the program fosters confidence, artistic expression, inclusion, and meaningful community engagement while ensuring that audiences of all abilities can experience the joy of live performing arts together.
$2,019 spent$14,427 earned by the program0% of program spendingAlamo City Arts Academy provides year-round arts education through comprehensive instruction in dance, music, theater, and voice for students of all ages and experience levels. The Academy offers training in a variety of dance disciplines, including ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, contemporary, hip hop, musical theater, ballet folklórico, flamenco, and adaptive dance, as well as private and group instruction in music and theater. Classes are designed to foster technical excellence, creativity, confidence, discipline, and a lifelong appreciation for the performing arts in a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment. In addition to weekly classes, the Academy offers workshops, master classes, summer intensives, performance opportunities, and outreach programs that connect students with accomplished artists and educators from around the world. Through these educational experiences, students develop artistic, personal, and leadership skills while preparing for college, professional careers, community performances, and lifelong participation in the arts. Financial assistance and scholarship opportunities help ensure that quality arts education remains accessible to students…
$162,713 spent$189,563 earned by the program38% of program spendingAlamo City Dance Company provides pre-professional performance opportunities for dancers while enriching the community through public performances, educational outreach, and cultural engagement. Company members receive advanced training and perform in a variety of productions that promote artistic excellence, teamwork, leadership, and community service. During 2025, the company presented its annual spring production of Coppélia and its fall production, Viva Mariachi, in collaboration with the Heart of Texas Concert Band. Company members also performed in the Ford Holiday River Parade, participated in numerous community festivals and outreach events, and represented Alamo City Arts at performances throughout the San Antonio area. Through these productions and appearances, the company provided meaningful performance experience for dancers while making high-quality performing arts accessible to thousands of community members.
$55,692 spent$68,377 earned by the program13% of program spendingAlamo City Symphony Viva provides affordable, high-quality orchestral performances that educate, inspire, and enrich the cultural life of the San Antonio community. Through performances featuring classical masterworks, popular repertoire, and collaborative productions, the orchestra creates meaningful opportunities for musicians while expanding public access to live orchestral music. During 2025, Alamo City Symphony Viva presented a five-concert subscription season featuring a diverse repertoire for audiences of all ages. The orchestra also launched the Arts Connect: Student Concert Series with Viva Mariachi, an educational concert celebrating Hispanic musical traditions that introduced thousands of students to live orchestral music and cultural heritage through engaging, TEKS-aligned performances.
$18,607 spentof which $50,000 as grants$76,457 earned by the program4% of program spendingHeart of Texas Concert Band provides free and affordable concert band performances that celebrate the rich tradition of wind band music while promoting music education and community engagement. Comprised of volunteer and professional musicians, the ensemble offers performance opportunities for musicians of all ages and backgrounds while making high-quality live music accessible to the public. During 2025, the Heart of Texas Concert Band presented nine public concerts, featuring a diverse repertoire of classical, patriotic, contemporary, and popular works. The ensemble also collaborated with other Alamo City Arts programs, including Viva Mariachi with Alamo City Dance Company, and participated in community events that enriched the cultural life of San Antonio through the performing arts.
$51,654 spent$61,729 earned by the program12% of program spendingCommunity Outreach - Alamo City Arts expanded access to the performing arts through performances at community events, collaborative concerts, cultural celebrations, and outreach initiatives throughout the San Antonio area. Programs included performances in the Ford Holiday River Parade, Fiesta Noche del Rio, Holidays on Houston Street, collaborations with local arts organizations, performances with Eva's Heroes, and numerous additional community festivals and special events. These outreach activities provided free and low-cost performing arts experiences while promoting arts education, cultural appreciation, and community engagement for audiences of all ages.
$86,090 spent$88,770 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $430,449.
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 2023 to 2024, from $296k to $147k (−50%).
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: 2021 22% · 2022 11% · 2023 7% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Cory McRae
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION’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
ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
82% of ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: 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 ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,023 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY LEAGUE ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $110,023 in grants to ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY LEAGUE is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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