Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,246,901 to it, the largest being THE TED AND SHANNON SKOKOS FOUNDATION ($2,050,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 393 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 393 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Eugene McDermott Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Incshared funders
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio match
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.
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 5% · 2018 12% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 55% · 2022 30% · 2023 17% · 2024 14% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $140k → $329k.
7 of 21 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: $2.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION 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
DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 76% · 2019 89% · 2020 40% · 2021 60% · 2022 54% · 2023 56% — 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
33% of DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC'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
97% of DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $677k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Eugene McDermott Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 145 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Halperin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hal & Diane Brierley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred and Ann Margolin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vin and Caren Prothro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perot Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- The Rees-Jones Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 163 organizations near you
- The Addy Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 173 organizations near you
- Hillcrest Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 249 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DALLAS CENTER FOR THE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,246,901 to it, the largest being THE TED AND SHANNON SKOKOS FOUNDATION ($2,050,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,246,901 in grants to DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- THE TED AND SHANNON SKOKOS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC 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 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing