Texas · Nonprofit
GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $770,576 to it, the largest being THE SIMONS FOUNDATION INC ($149,900). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $771k
- Net assets
- $52M
What Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
For austinites of every background, the long center is the community gathering place that offers the most diverse programming and stunning views of the city, so that together, everyone can experience remarkable live arts & entertainment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Manage a state of the art, multi-venue facility that hosts the broad spectrum of live arts and entertainment, including local performing arts organizations, community events and education programs.
$30,398,079 spentof which $21,115,270 as grants$7,188,790 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,398,079.
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 2022 to 2023, from $58M to $70M (+22%).
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 16% · 2022 22% · 2024 61% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Cory Baker
President & CEO
Board chair
Shayna Brown
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $56k → $256k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $584k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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 GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 35% · 2021 38% · 2022 29% · 2023 58% — 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
21% of GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Defense$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 GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $770,576 to it, the largest being THE SIMONS FOUNDATION INC ($149,900). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $770,576 in grants to GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- THE SIMONS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $149,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 31 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