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Dayton Performing Arts Alliance
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance (Ohio) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,447,225 to it, the largest being THE SCHIEWETZ FOUNDATION INC ($2,340,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Dayton Performing Arts Alliance does
Mission
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance is an innovative merger of Ballet, Opera, and Orchestra art forms.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO), the region's oldest performing arts organization, gave its first performance in 1933 under Founder Paul Katz. Its 80 contracted musicians are led by Keitaro Harada, only the fifth Music & Artistic Director in the DPO's 90 year history - providing rare artistic continuity and vision. The DPO was instrumental in the effort to build the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center a state of the art venue that has elevated Dayton's ability to attract world class guest artists. Each season, the DPO presents a Masterworks Series that balances orchestral classics with contemporary works and serves as an essential artistic partner in major Ballet and Opera productions.
$3,208,813 spent$1,182,763 earned by the program46% of program spendingThe Dayton Ballet is the second oldest regional ballet company in the U.S., founded in 1927 when sisters Josephine and Hermene Schwarz established the second oldest ballet school, followed a decade later by the third oldest professional company. Today, the partnership between the school and company remains strong, allowing young artists to train and perform alongside the 20 professional and 10 studio (apprentice) dancers. This legacy is celebrated in the Ballet's annual production of The Nutcracker - its most significant contribution to the community - and Artistic Director Brandon Ragland's new production premiered in 2024. Each season, the Ballet Series presents classic story ballets and a repertoire show, and dancers participate in major Opera and crosslisted orchestra productions.
$1,690,323 spent$935,758 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe Dayton Opera performed its first season in 1961-1962 and today presents landmark productions that are building momentum and defying national attendance trends. Nationally recognized vocalists are featured alongside our Artists in Residence and chorus, offering mentorship and shared performance opportunities. Each season, the Opera Series includes a grand opera, an iconic musical, and compilation or recital programs. Fully staged productions that unite opera, ballet, and orchestra are among the most anticipated and best received performances, driving significant audience growth in recent years. This success reflects growing national interest in classical music and opera, as well as increasing enthusiasm from some of DPAA's youngest and most diverse audiences.
$1,054,743 spent$314,656 earned by the program15% of program spendingLearning and Community Engagement programs address the urgent need for high-quality arts education where all three artforms share the stage and serve upwards of 60,000 students, educators, and caregivers annually. We meet our community where they are - in their classrooms, schools, and the concert hall. In-School and Community Programs: DPAA artists and EnCorps Volunteers bring the arts right to classrooms in local school districts; there's a program for every age level and subject area. Ballet programs are performed by our School Ensemble and Studio Company, opera programs are performed by our 5 Artists-in-Residence, and 5 ensembles from the orchestra (brass quintet, philharmonic trio, string quartet, string quintet, and woodwind quintet) perform in 15 different Adventures in Sound programs. Field Trip Programs: DPAA hosts concert experiences for our youngest audience members throughout the year. Twice a year we host Young People's Concert's and in February we host three special Magic Carpet Concerts. DPAA also hosts a Sensory Friendly production of The Nutcracker annually. Access and exposure to high caliber, live professional performances are an impactful experience that help…
$969,605 spent$493,837 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,923,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $13M (+14%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 13% · 2021 22% · 2022 29% · 2023 14% · 2024 12% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of Dayton Performing Arts Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 7 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
Patrick Nugent
President & CEO
Board chair
Joe Zehenny
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $777k → $2.0M.
11 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $11M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Dayton Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Dayton Performing Arts Alliance raised.
From the IRS filings of Dayton Performing Arts Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 37% · 2021 21% · 2022 29% · 2023 18% — 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
54% of Dayton Performing Arts Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
74% of Dayton Performing Arts Alliance's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Dayton Performing Arts Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $66k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$66k
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.
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Dayton Performing Arts Alliance: 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 Dayton Performing Arts Alliance?
- Dayton Performing Arts Alliance (Ohio) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,447,225 to it, the largest being THE SCHIEWETZ FOUNDATION INC ($2,340,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dayton Performing Arts Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $11,447,225 in grants to Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dayton Performing Arts Alliance?
- THE SCHIEWETZ FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dayton Performing Arts Alliance 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 44 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