Vermont · Nonprofit
HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS
HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $722,520 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $949k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $723k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Highland Center for the Arts does
Program
The Highland Center for the Arts is located in greensboro, vermont. The state-of-the-art performance theater has multiple thrust stage configurations, seating for 250 people, and a 100-seat small performance space. The programing includes dance, music, theatre, circus arts, cinema, workshops, artist residences, and lectures. The goal is to achieve a balanced, year-round schedule of locally and nationally recognized artists and events suited to serving the communities in the northeast kingdom and within the wider central vermont region. Hca's campus is designed to provide exceptional opportunities to create, exhibit, view, experience, perform, learn about and talk about art through performances, programs, workshop, festivals, classes, and multi-disciplinary events. The facility includes the hardwick street cafe, an eatery serving fresh, locally sourced ingredients, and an art gallery featuring a rich variety of visual artists.
$1,350,622 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $15M (−5%).
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
Keisha Luce
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $150k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS’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
HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
58% of HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS'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 $305k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $417k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS's revenue fell 37% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: 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 HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $722,520 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $722,520 in grants to HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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