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BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART
BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,724,448 to it, the largest being THE TOBIN ENDOWMENT ($3,442,457). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $154M
What Bexar County Performing Arts Center Fdn Tobin Center for the Performing Art does
Mission
The mission of the tobin center, a local non-profit arts organization, is to provide a world-class venue that promotes a diverse range of cultural, educational, and artistic experiences that improve the quality of life in san antonio.since its opening in september 2014, the tobin center for the performingarts has transformed performing arts in san antonio, providing a beautiful state-of-the-art venue for the community to enjoy our local performing arts organizations and artists from all over the world. To ensure accessibility, the tobin provides free events for schools, special needs populations, and the community at large including festivals, movie screenings, wellness events, field trips, sensory friendly programming, and more as well as several free and discounted ticket programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation was established to provide an exceptional home for the arts that promotes a diverse range of cultural, educational, and artistic experiences to improve the quality of life in San Antonio. In 2025, the venue welcomed approximately 230,000 visitors. The Tobin Center's community outreach programs provide free wellness classes, family movie nights, festivals, and other community events. In 2025, more than 9,000 people attended one or more of the 70 free events. The Tobins education programs reached more than 50,000 with school time and sensory friendly performances, artist interactions, and teacher professional development. Ballet San Antonio, The Orchestra San Antonio, Children's Chorus of San Antonio, Opera San Antonio, and Youth Orchestra San Antonio - the Tobin Center's resident companies - were provided with free office and/or meeting space, ticketing services, volunteer ushers, and deeply discounted rental rates for events, rehearsals, and performances.
$19,538,997 spent$12,396,181 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,538,997.
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 2017 to 2018, from $203M to $196M (−4%).
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 44% · 2018 4% · 2020 7% · 2021 40% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Michael J Fresher
President & CEO
Board chair
Phillip D Green
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $494k → $2.5M.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $453k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest San Antonio Area Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART raised.
From the IRS filings of BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 79% · 2019 48% · 2020 33% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 67% — 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
36% of BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
95% of BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $71k on record.
- Department of Defense$71k
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 BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART
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 Texas
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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Tobin Entertainment LLC · disregarded
- Tpac Parking Services LLC · disregarded
- Generation Next Education Initiative LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART?
- BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,724,448 to it, the largest being THE TOBIN ENDOWMENT ($3,442,457). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $7,724,448 in grants to BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART?
- THE TOBIN ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $3,442,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART 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.
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 37 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