Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,251,901 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $166M
What Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc does
Mission
We are a vibrant cultural hub that provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations and our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The nonprofit dallas center for the performing arts foundation, dba at&t performing arts center, annually welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors to its campus to come discover all the performing arts have to offer. The center's iconic venues sit on a 10-acre campus in the heart of the dallas arts district, and has become a cultural incubator featuring the world's finest performance artists. It provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations (including five resident companies and two long-term programming partners), and our community. It also serves the diverse north texas community with a robust range of arts education and community programs. (continued on schedule o)additionally, the center provides a wide range of support services to other nonprofit arts organizing including marketing, ticketing services, performance space and parking. In fy 2025, the center experienced an estimated 400,000 visits to its campus and other center presentations across the community and looks forward to welcoming the world as north texas will host nine games during the 2026 fifa world cup games in dallas. The center's purpose: to shape the stage for life…
$29,736,492 spentof which $175,000 as grants$15,663,533 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,736,492.
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 2017 to 2018, from $249M to $230M (−8%).
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
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
Warren Tranquada
President & CEO
Board chair
Jill B Louis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $140k → $329k.
8 of 22 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 80%; 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; 64% 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. $682k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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
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 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
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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.
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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 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,251,901 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 22 organizations giving $4,251,901 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 22 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