Florida · Nonprofit
BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,878,401 to it, the largest being LILLIAN S WELLS FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Broward Performing Arts Foundation Inc does
Mission
The broward performing arts foundation, inc.'s mission is to sustain, develop and secure the future of the performing arts in broward county, florida, primarily by providing support for the programming, educational activities, operations and capital development of the broward center for the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The broward performing arts foundation supports high-quality artistic and cultural programming, including musical performances spanning a wide range of genres, theater, dance, comedy and more, at the broward center for the performing arts and its affiliated venue, the parker. In addition to supporting programming, the foundation raises capital funds to sustain the venues and recently completed two capital campaigns: the 60-million encore capital campaign to expand, renovate and revitalize the broward center and the 30-million campaign for the parker to restore parker playhouse. The foundation also maintains an endowment fund designed to provide a reliable source of income in perpetuity to support mission-driven activities. The broward performing arts foundation supports a wide variety of educational programming at the broward center, which constitutes the largest free arts-in-education program in the country and has served more than 3.8 million students to date. Through the student enrichment through the arts (seas) program, more than 100,000 public school k-12 students each year have the opportunity to attend educational and cultural performances at the broward center and the…
$7,246,313 spentof which $6,566,833 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,246,313.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $25M to $30M (+24%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
George S Lemieux
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $287k → $2.7M.
15 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $1.4M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Broward Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 60% · 2019 34% · 2020 36% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% — 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
64% of BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
73% of BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION 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 BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,878,401 to it, the largest being LILLIAN S WELLS FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $16,878,401 in grants to BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- LILLIAN S WELLS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 104 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing