Ohio · Nonprofit
COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,117,811 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($1,410,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $79M
What Columbus Association for the Performing Arts does
Mission
Capa enriches lives by cultivating and nurturing the arts, spreading an appreciation that can be felt in hearts, minds and the economy of our communities. We accomplish our mission through our four strategic pillars: (1) as an arts leader by supporting sustainability and collaborating with arts groups to raise the arts profile in our community; (2) as a dynamic presenter of exceptional arts programming that challenges, inspires, entertains, and engages audiences; (3) through education and outreach that provides community access to programs that promote the appreciation of the performing arts and augment other arts education efforts; and (4) through stewardship of performing arts spaces offering transformational experiences for visitors, artists, and renters by providing and operating first-class performing arts spaces and preserving historic theatres
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since its founding in 1969, capa has achieved international recognition for presenting diverse performing arts and entertainment programming, restoring historic theatres, excellence in facility management, and positive contributions to the quality of life in our community.each season, capa's performances and programs serve over 900,000 people from central ohio and beyond, through performances in our venues and events throughout the community. Our largest production each year is festival latino, ohio's largest free hispanic/latino festival, which was attended by 135,000 individuals in 2025. Capa presents performances in our theatres include diverse genres: blues, the broadway in columbus series (in partnership with broadway in columbus), children's entertainment, classic films (the capa summer movie series is the nation's longest-running classic film series), comedy, dance, folk, gospel, jazz, pop, and much more.
$10,374,085 spent$13,685,396 earned by the program48% of program spendingCapa owns and/or manages 10 theatre spaces in downtown columbus, including four historic theatres. Our theatre operations include facilitating rental events, maintaining the theatres, and providing ticketing and administrative services for other nonprofit organizations. In 2024-25, 1,063 ticketed events took place in capa's venues, serving 655,118 ticketed patrons.
$10,978,139 spent$12,745,579 earned by the program50% of program spendingOur education and engagement programs include the capa marquee awards, an official regional awards program of the national high school musical theatre awards, the passport to learning student matinee series, applause broadway for kids, broadway in the classroom, arise (arts through intergenerational social engagement), dia de los ninos/day of the children, schooled on poetry, workshops and master classes, community engagement, and tours of the historic theatres. We reach out to underserved schools and communities through free programs and events, reduced and free tickets, and subsidies for busing students to our theatres. More than 73,000 community members benefitted from our education and engagement programs during the fiscal year. 26 schools participated in the seventh annual capa marquee awards presented by american electric power foundation, reaching 2,300 high school students. Throughout the year, students participated in a series of free master classes and workshops with local and regional artists, including the touring broadway companies of "the book of mormon", dr. Seuss's "how the grinch stole christmas", "& juliet", "funny girl", and "peter pan". The 2025 capa marquee…
$424,365 spent$257,656 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,776,589.
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 $68M to $78M (+16%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 3% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 12% · 2024 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% 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.
Board chair
Schoedinger Michael
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $134k → $351k.
12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $10M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Columbus Arts Council). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’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
COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 32% · 2019 51% · 2020 40% · 2021 30% · 2022 66% · 2023 71% — 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
46% of COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $507k 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
COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Columbus Pictures LLC · disregarded
- Historic Drexel LLC · disregarded
- Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts · exempt
- Lincoln Theatre Association · exempt
- The Columbus Association for the Southern Theatre · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,117,811 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($1,410,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,117,811 in grants to COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- American Electric Power Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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