Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,512 to it, the largest being CUMBERLAND AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($223,941). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $329k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Carlisle Regional Performing Arts Center does
Mission
To preserve and operate the historic carlisle theatre as a performing arts center and community gathering place that provides a focal point of cultural activity and educational outreach for diverse audiences.vision: to make the grand and historic carlisle theatre the preferred venue for performers and patrons in the central pennsylvania region. Its main objective is to present the highest quality theatrical, musical, and concert works, as well as to provide entertaining and educational children's programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Concert event & rentals (live music/community rental branch) - this branch of the theatre programming seeks to bring to central pennsylvania live shows featuring music from local, regional, and national touring artists of all genres as both a sole producer & rental space for professional entertainment promoters. The theatre is also used by local performing organizations that are for the enrichment of the local community, as well as organizations that hold events for the community. There were 22 mainstage concert events & rentals with an attendance of 9,750 people. 16 mainstage concerts were produced by national promoters as a theatre rental, 3 mainstage concerts were produced as rentals by local producers, and 3 mainstage concerts were produced by the carlisle theatre.
$158,422 spent$116,709 earned by the program41% of program spendingHollywood on high (film branch) - this branch of the theatre programming seeks to bring diverse, thought provoking, seasonal, and critically acclaimed film experiences of all genres to central pennsylvania. These films are programmed into artistic seasons that support full theatre programming, intentional series offerings, or partnerships with local organizations for co-hosted film events on the big screen. The theatre is also rented by clients to show private or public film events outside of our artistic seasons & series offerings. There were 54 individual film events produced, with an attendance of 3,582 people.
$34,442 spent$22,857 earned by the program9% of program spendingPlayers on high (live theatre branch) this branch of the theatre is a hybrid, live theatre branch offering a range of productions with both community and professional opportunities, fully produced by carlisle theatre. Their fifth full season successfully ran from july 2024 - june 2025 and is continuing to expand and evolve with educational theatrical classes & workshops, mainstage productions, and black box experiences. There was a total attendance of 4,586 for the branch. There were 4 mainstage live theatre shows with an attendance of 2,957 people. 6 educational summer camp mainstage musicals were produced with an attendance of 1,195 grades prek-12. 6 blackbox, intimate theatre productions were produced with an attendance of 221. 7 community based theatrical collaborations were produced with other local artists in a series of original experiences with an attendance of 213 patrons.
$190,024 spent$133,200 earned by the program49% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,177 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $384,065.
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 $999k to $1.8M (+80%).
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: 2022 51% · 2024 1% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of CARLISLE REGIONAL 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. 2 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
Ashley Byerts
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $68.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’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
CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 96% · 2021 70% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378 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
CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CARLISLE REGIONAL 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 CARLISLE REGIONAL 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 CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,512 to it, the largest being CUMBERLAND AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($223,941). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $328,512 in grants to CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- CUMBERLAND AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $223,941 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing