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ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Alaska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,239 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($409,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$11M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$996k
Net assets
$3.9M
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Alaska Center for the Performing Arts does

Mission

Our mission: to live and love the arts; our purpose: the performing arts center is the place to be. A gathering place where all are welcome to share the arts as a passion and way of life: our vision: the evolve the arts in alaska and make them accessible to all.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, inc is an organization founded to operate, promote, and maintain a four-theater complex that serves as a social and cultural meeting place.

    $9,552,764 spent$8,811,512 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,552,764.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 101 ($3.0M) Expenses 101 ($3.0M) Net assets 104 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 112 ($3.3M) Expenses 102 ($3.0M) Net assets 129 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 107 ($3.2M) Expenses 89 ($2.6M) Net assets 172 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 112 ($3.3M) Expenses 87 ($2.5M) Net assets 230 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 122 ($3.6M) Expenses 117 ($3.4M) Net assets 240 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 388 ($12M) Expenses 417 ($12M) Net assets 227 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 382 ($11M) Expenses 367 ($11M) Net assets 276 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (382)Expenses (367)Net assets (276)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $5.3M (+67%).

$2.4M
$2.7M
$3.6M
$3.2M
$5.3M
$6.3M
$7.0M
$6.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 45% · 2018 45% · 2019 42% · 2020 78% · 2021 79% · 2022 49% · 2023 14% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 812 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’17
$55k
’18
$353k
’19
$587k
’20
$777k
’21
$193k
’22
−$678k
’23
$594k
’24
4.2
months of
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.

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Listed2831313232333234
Joined·+12+1+7+5+2+1+8
No longer listed·9165126
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $29k → $193k.

5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’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

ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 89% · 2019 61% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 66% — broadly stable.

“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

56% of ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 3 states in all.

AK
WA
WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 30%Fundraising 2%

Governance

34
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Alaska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,239 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($409,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $996,239 in grants to ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $409,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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