Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,101 to it, the largest being BUCKS COUNTY CONFERENCE & VISITORS BUREAU ($55,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
The specific purpose of bucks county center for performing arts is to provide theatrical productions and entertainment featuring plays and musicals for public enjoyment in the state of pennsylvania; to find new composers and cultivate new playwrights; to provide education and theatrical performance opportunities to young actors, singers, and technical designers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides theatrical productions and entertainment featuring plays and musicals for public enjoyment.
$141,826 spent$139,949 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $141,826.
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 2021 to 2022, from $219k to $59k (−73%).
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: 2020 42% · 2021 57% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Howard Perloff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $9k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’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
BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 83% · 2020 59% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,065 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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 Pennsylvania
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
94%
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 BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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 BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,101 to it, the largest being BUCKS COUNTY CONFERENCE & VISITORS BUREAU ($55,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $93,101 in grants to BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- BUCKS COUNTY CONFERENCE & VISITORS BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $55,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 6 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