Vermont · Nonprofit
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,960,621 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,840,808). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd does
Mission
The flynn center for the performing arts fosters the enjoyment, understanding and development of the performing arts in vermont through diverse and engaging artisitic experiences. The flynn fulfills this mission through the following:developing, maintaining and managing the historic flynn theater and flynn center properties to meet current and evolving performing arts needs.presenting a diverse range of high quality performances by established and emerging artist that expand and enrich the community's cultural experiences.providing educational programs that engage children, teens and adults in the artistic process, cultivate appreciation of the performing arts, and make the performing arts an integral part of school and community life.support local, national and international artists in the development and presentation of their work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The flynn curates and hosts a full season of multidisciplinary work; the burlington discover jazz festival; exhibitions featuring vermont artists, student matinee programming; in-school workshops and arts integration training for teachers; residencies providing creation time and space for artists. We are deeply committed to making the arts accessible and inclusive throughout our vermont communities. The flynn seeks to engage, challenge, and reimagine what performing arts can look like in our community and continually pushes beyond the bounds of our physical spaces, taking performances into parks, outdoor marketplaces, schools, and farms. We invest in free shows and art in public spaces and seek to include a diverse range of voices throughout our programming. (continued on schedule o) guest curators bring new perspectives to festivals and performance series, and partnerships with schools, nonprofits, and other arts organizations are further expanding our community.
$5,213,108 spent$4,893,850 earned by the program93% of program spendingThe flynn opens its campus and partners with other arts organizations off campus to provide lessons, kids' camps, and workshops. Ages 0 to 100 are served by our educational and community initiatives. While our youngest participants enjoy the monthly free flynnzone kids' hour, and family shows, some of our oldest participants connect with one another and engage in therapeutic movement through our cherished movement for parkinson's class, both in-person and online. People of all ages can enjoy classes such as tap, comedic storytelling, and creative writing, and children and teens can find opportunities to immerse themselves in a creative camp or class led by skilled teaching artists.
$397,792 spent$79,326 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,610,900.
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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $26M (+20%).
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 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 5% · 2024 2% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jason Wahl
Executive director
Board chair
Deborah Estabrook
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $505k → $898k.
13 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% 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
75% 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 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 30% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 25% — 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
37% of FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD'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
66% of FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M 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
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$995k
- National Endowment for the Arts$508k
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 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD?
- FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,960,621 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,840,808). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $5,960,621 in grants to FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,840,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 66 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