Missouri · Nonprofit
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Missouri) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,789,919 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($64,079,330). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $80M
- Net assets
- $343M
What Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts does
Mission
To enrich the lives of everyone in our community through extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences. These experiences are provided through programs, customer service, and education.(continued on schedule o)programs: showcase a variety of high-quality programs through resident companies and community partnerships, as well as national and international artists and productions.customer service: create devoted patrons and enhance the satisfaction for all who come into the venue.education: nurture love of the arts for present and future generations and support opportunities for access to the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since the grand opening in 2011, the kauffman center, in collaboration with its resident organizations: kansas city ballet, kansas city symphony and lyric opera of kansas city, along with numerous other community arts organizations, have continued to bring excellent performing arts experiences to the kansas city area. (continued on schedule o) the 2024-2025 performance season was a robust and filled with programming which led to a diverse and impactful season. In addition to the rao and cao performances, new and former audiences were brought to the venue through kauffman center presents with performing arts experiences ranging from family programming like bluey's big play, beloved singers such as amy grant and natalia lafourcade, and inspired musicians such as vitamin string quartet and drumline live. - 709 on-stage performances & special events in fiscal 2025 - 408,143 patrons attended performances & special events in fiscal 2025 the kauffman center is dedicated to creating unprecedented access to arts experiences for young people and underserved audiences in the kansas city metropolitan area. The kauffman center's community engagement programs contain many avenues that connect…
$22,273,013 spentof which $104,415 as grants$8,334,637 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,273,013.
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 2024 to 2025, from $439M to $370M (−16%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 20% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Paul Schofer
President & CEO
Board chair
Julia Irene Kauffman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell $60M → $3.4M.
10 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 66% · 2022 70% · 2023 69% — 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
49% of KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
82% of KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 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 $14M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
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 KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
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 KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Missouri) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,789,919 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($64,079,330). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $79,789,919 in grants to KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $64,079,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 72 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