Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,062,576 to it, the largest being EUGENE M LANG FOUNDATION ($1,732,856). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Atlas Performing Arts Center does
Mission
The atlas is a creative space for artists and audiences to explore the idea and issues of our time. We nurture an equitable home for artists representing our diverse community. We leverage partnerships and programs that reflect the best of the arts and our humanity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Atlas presents: the Atlas Performing Arts Center presents, produces, and curates artistic events. We connect our audiences and patrons through compelling theatrical performances, dynamic, musical entertainment, dance, spoken word. Atlas presents includes the following programs: arts for young audiences, jazz at the atlas, the atlas silent film series, and the annual intersections festival, which boasts over 35 performances with over 400 artists, as well as the annual youth summit. The Atlas Performing Arts Center stands as a cultural icon and destination within a dynamic community energized by human diversity, abundant in economic opportunity, and infused with passion for the arts.
$2,828,973 spent$692,855 earned by the program89% of program spendingTheater, special events and rentals: atlas provides a theater rental home for professional performing arts companies and nonresident, regional, national and international production companies (including dance, theatre, orchestral and variety) in seven spaces (four theatres and three dance studios). Atlas provides administrative and production support for its resident and visiting companies in a complete floor of offices on the lower level (3,000 square feet). The atlas also rents its spaces for community based events such as weddings, birthdays, and other celebrations along with rentals to businesses for seminars and other corporate meetings and gatherings. Atlas has been, and continues to be an economic and cultural anchor and the leader in the revitalization of the h street corridor in northeast washington, dc.
$200,395 spent$617,112 earned by the program6% of program spendingEducational programs: as a cultural and artistic hub, the atlas is also dedicated to developing the next generation of artists and audiences through educational activities and programming. The atlas has performance spaces and we often host free events in our lobby. We produce atlas presents performances and rent spaces to other artist groups so they can create their own productions. Our arts education programming include our city at peace youth development program. In addition, atlas arts lab is an artist fellowship program dedicated to the creation of new working in the performing arts.
$162,375 spent$14,403 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,191,743.
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.
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 $16M to $15M (−7%).
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 10% · 2018 13% · 2019 41% · 2020 45% · 2021 61% · 2022 52% · 2023 21% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $141k → $546k.
8 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 86% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 49% — 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
42% of ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: 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 ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,062,576 to it, the largest being EUGENE M LANG FOUNDATION ($1,732,856). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $5,062,576 in grants to ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- EUGENE M LANG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,732,856 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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.
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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 41 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