Illinois · Nonprofit
HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC
HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($135,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $696k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $206k
What Heartland Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
Heartland performing arts is a nonprofit organization which brings together arts professionals to encourage innovation, create educational opportunities, strengthen artist touring relationships, and support arts advocacy throughout the central united states. The organization was founded by agents, artists, and state consortia leaders from illinois, indiana, iowa, michigan, minnesota, ohio, plains presenters, southwest presenters, and wisconsin. The organization's primary purpose is to produce the annual midwest arts xpo (max) booking conference.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The midwest arts xpo 2025 was held in milwaukee, wi. The 2026 midwest arts xpo will be in milwaukee, wi again on september 22-25, 2026. The xpo provides professional development, intergenerational mentorship for new colleagues, opportunities to see works of all genres and provides networking opportunities to connect artists, agents, and arts organizations in both formal and informal settings. Max serves a critical role in the performing arts touring ecosystem. While focused on the midwest region, the conference has grown into the second largest booking conference in the touring performing arts industry. Max 2025 by the numbers: 756 total registered attendees (742 attended) representing 34 states, canada, france, and poland 23 professional development sessions 216 exhibitor booths in the exhibit hall marketplace 254 presenting organizations represented 236 showcase performances presented over three nights
$540,559 spent$695,516 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $540,559.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $71k to $205k (+191%).
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.
0% of HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC’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.
Where its funders are
HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEARTLAND 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTLAND 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 HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($135,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $135,000 in grants to HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- Arts Midwest Incorporated is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTLAND PERFORMING ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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