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ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS

ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,944,420 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($4,125,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.3M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$5.9M
Net assets
$2.8M
6/14 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Association of Performing Arts Professionals does

Mission

The Association of Performing Arts Professionals develops and supports a robust performing art presenting, booking, and touring field and the professionals who work in it.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Members conference - more than 3,600 performing arts professionals attend the conference. Activities include professional development, round table discussions, presentations, artist showcases, and exhibitions.

    $958,774 spent$1,787,820 earned by the program
    36% of program spending
  2. Professional development includes leadership programs for emerging and mid-career arts professionals, focused artist institutes, the development and presentation of year-round workshops, intensives and webinars on topics and issues impacting the field, professional development sessions programmed at the annual conference, and the sharing of resources and information through online tools and networks.

    $466,556 spent
    17% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $1,245,505 spent$96,471 earned by the program
    47% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,670,835.

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 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($5.8M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 95 ($4.1M) Expenses 75 ($4.3M) Net assets 93 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 89 ($3.8M) Expenses 75 ($4.3M) Net assets 78 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 98 ($4.2M) Expenses 71 ($4.1M) Net assets 78 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 46 ($2.0M) Expenses 36 ($2.1M) Net assets 83 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 129 ($5.5M) Expenses 84 ($4.9M) Net assets 95 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 78 ($3.3M) Expenses 59 ($3.4M) Net assets 95 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 83 ($3.5M) Expenses 65 ($3.8M) Net assets 91 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 76 ($3.3M) Expenses 63 ($3.7M) Net assets 81 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (63)Net assets (81)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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $6.1M (+68%).

$4.8M
$4.4M
$3.7M
$3.5M
$3.6M
$6.1M
$6.0M
$5.5M
$4.8M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

39% of ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.5M
’17
−$280k
’18
−$540k
’19
$88k
’20
−$109k
’21
$669k
’22
−$128k
’23
−$254k
’24
−$424k
’25
2.9
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.

Chief executive

Lisa Richards

President & CEO

Board chair

Chris Heacox

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed272527282424292828
Joined·+6+4+5+5+0+10+0+7
No longer listed·82490517
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $376k → $685k.

2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS’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

ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 87% · 2022 67% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.

“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

30% of ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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

ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.

NY
PA
NJ
CA

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $655k on record.

Federal$655k
grants $655kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$655k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 22%Fundraising 5%

Governance

24
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS?
ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,944,420 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($4,125,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $5,944,420 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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