California · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,390,273 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($696,911). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $967k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Foundation for the Performing Arts Center does
Mission
To provide and promote an extraordinary and accessible center for the performing arts that elevates the arts in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Center operations - amounts paid on behalf of san luis obispo performing arts center for program expenses, center operation expenses, interest expense, furnishings and equipment purchases.
$1,101,763 spentof which $783,248 as grants85% of program spendingArts season - amounts paid to the cal poly arts program to sponsor their performing arts season which provides a broad program of high quality professional touring performances, exhibitions and speaking engagements, while also assisting with educational needs of students through various artist-in-residency activities and off-campus school outreach events.
$107,500 spent8% of program spendingSchool matinee - amounts to support the school matinee program which gives thousands of local children from all local public, private and home schools the opportunity to attend educational, live arts performances at the pac every school year.
$90,000 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,299,263.
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 $7.8M to $9.6M (+23%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Kristin Hoover
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $169k → $150k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’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
FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 60% · 2019 51% · 2020 45% · 2021 39% · 2022 74% · 2023 47% — 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
42% of FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
78% of FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER'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 $311k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's revenue grew 63% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,390,273 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($696,911). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,390,273 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $696,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 19 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