New Jersey · Nonprofit
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,390,446 to it, the largest being THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION ($970,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
To enhance the performing arts in northern new jersey and to aid, produce, present and to make any and all arrangements necessary, or desirable in connection therewith, musical concerts, recitals, and productions of every kind and nature, including, but not limited to, vocal and instrumental concerts, recitals, operas, and ballets and to solicit, accept, administer, and disburse gifts, grants, and bequests of property of every kind or to hold said property in trust in such a manner as the corporatin deems appropriate for the furthering of the purpsoes of the corporation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education and outreach and theatre operations.
$8,271,556 spent$9,310,966 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,271,556.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $15M (+37%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 43% · 2022 60% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Alexander Diaz
Executive director
Board chair
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Chair/trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 12 funders, grant income rose $133k → $836k.
8 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 67% · 2019 69% · 2020 27% · 2021 43% · 2022 46% · 2023 49% — 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
27% of BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
94% of BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $662k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- GRANT IN AID$3.3M
- FEDERAL$410k
- TRUST FUND$30k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$14k
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 BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: 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 BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,390,446 to it, the largest being THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION ($970,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,390,446 in grants to BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $970,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 45 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