Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Wisconsin) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,247,198 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($1,452,568). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $49M
What Fox Cities Performing Arts Center does
Mission
The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is a multicultural gathering place for the community to engage in educational opportunities and enhance understanding and enjoyment of life through the creation and presentation of the arts by providing a premier venue for performing arts attractions and art organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center welcomed more than 184,000 ticketed patrons to live events in the 2024-25 season, continuing its mission to be the multicultural gathering place for the community and attracting visitors from across northeast wisconsin and surrounding states. The kimberly-clark broadway across america fox cities series had 10,339 season ticket holders, an increase of more than 700 from the prior season. The center partnered with 39 organizations to provide community engagement and educational opportunities beyond the performances, connecting more than 7,600 community members to deepen their experience with the live performing arts. Through the amcor education series, the center engaged more than 19,300 students and educators from 214 schools. More than 2,100 students from 34 schools throughout northeast wisconsin participated in the center stage high school musical theater program. The center also advanced its accessibility efforts, launching a new partnership with kulturecity to better serve patrons with sensory sensitivities and expanding services for those with vision impairments through additional touch tours and audio description at broadway performances.
$7,479,597 spent$3,875,452 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,479,597.
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 $88M to $82M (−6%).
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 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 36% · 2022 19% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’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. 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
Maria Van Laanen
President & CEO
Board chair
Ryan Downs Term End 2027
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $436k → $890k.
16 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
88% 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 FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 49% · 2019 48% · 2020 44% · 2021 46% · 2022 30% · 2023 37% — 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
37% of FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
57% of FOX CITIES 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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER has grown faster 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 FOX CITIES 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 FOX CITIES 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 FOX CITIES 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 FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Wisconsin) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,247,198 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($1,452,568). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,247,198 in grants to FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,452,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 37 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