Florida · Nonprofit
DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,040,169 to it, the largest being DR PHILLIPS INC ($5,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
Guided by the vision of arts for every life, the dr. Phillips center serves as a cultural conerstone for orlando and the seven-county region as well as the many visitors to the orlando area. We bring arts to life through performances, educational initiatives and community-centered programs that celebrate artistic heritage and civic vitality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming: as a performing arts center our primary purpose is to provide presentations in our performance venue that impacts the lives of all in our community. We program local, regional, national and international artists. We present a wide array of performance and presentation types, including drama, dance, musicals, broadway, jazz, blues, hip-hop, and popular music and speakers. The orlando philharmonic orchestra, orlando ballet and opera orlando perform their seasons in our theatres. The university of central florida produces an annual 2 week arts celebration with exhibits and performances. We provide a venue for local groups small and large to perform and build their audience.
$52,562,618 spent$53,728,710 earned by the program94% of program spendingCommunity outreach and landmark operations: bringing the arts into every aspect of the community and making the arts available to all is a major component of the dr. Phillips center. Non-profit groups and schools are supported in their productions by dr. Phillips center professionals. Located in the heart of downtown orlando, the uniquely designed property is a public landmark. We provide a gathering place and ways for community organizations to benefit from the center. Our production and marketing teams provide significant professional support and expertise to local arts groups and community organizations in their presentations at the arts center. Community and civic organizations often use the center to make announcements or hold events. Free community events are held on the outdoor plaza. We have provided unique community giveback initiatives that include tickets to presentations and other events for students, veterans, first responders, teachers, senior citizens, and people with special needs.
$2,506,842 spent$3,151,687 earned by the program4% of program spendingArts education: the dr. Phillips center advent health school of the arts produces and offers arts education at a variety of levels for participants from ages 3 to 103. Our philosophy that the arts inspire wellness through hands-on educational experiences provides opportunities at the arts center and in the community. Our classes and summer camps include training in performing arts disciplines of dance, voice, theater, instrumental and wellness. Scholarships are available. Broadway master classes allow local students and pre-professionals to train with visiting professionals from national broadway tours. Education programs go beyond our doors into the community at schools and other organizations. Our applause awards program serves schools in the 7 county region and beyond by providing professional adjudicators to over 50 high school musical productions. Based on the adjudicator comments and tabulations, productions and individuals receive awards in specific categories at a ceremony held each year at the center. During certain music performances we bring in groups of students to experience the sound check of the artists, a q&a, a lecture series, dinner and tickets to the show. In…
$893,949 spentof which $75,170 as grants$1,080,954 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: $55,963,409.
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 2021 to 2022, from $72M to $39M (−46%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 10% · 2021 61% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’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. 0 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
Katherine Ramsberger
CEO & president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $484k → $1.6M.
19 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $1.2M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central Florida Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 72% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 72% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — 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
58% of DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
93% of DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC is better cushioned than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $984k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
- National Endowment for the Arts$225k
- Department of Defense$9k
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 DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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 DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,040,169 to it, the largest being DR PHILLIPS INC ($5,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $16,040,169 in grants to DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- DR PHILLIPS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 61 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