Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
KIMMEL CENTER INC
KIMMEL CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,336,454 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($2,248,488). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $96M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $230M
What Kimmel Center Inc does
Mission
The Kimmel Center Inc, d/b/a ensemble arts philly's mission is to share the transformative power of the performing arts and arts education with the widest possible audience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The kimmel center, inc., d/b/a ensemble arts philly (the center), operates and maintains world-class performance venues including the kimmel center for the performing arts, the academy of music, and the miller theater. The center provides state-of-the-art venues and support facilities for resident companies and a broad range of other regional performance groups at below costs. The center presents artistic programming of the highest quality that serves diverse audiences and brings world-renowned artists to philadelphia. The center also provides vital arts education and community programming to serve the interests of a broad and diverse audience and invests in burgeoning local talent with jazz and theater residency programs which act as an incubator for new works of art.
$63,364,326 spent$50,674,930 earned by the program99% of program spendingTo provide vital arts education and community programming to serve the interests of a broad and diverse audience.
$779,411 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,143,737.
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 $259M to $272M (+5%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 28% · 2022 15% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of KIMMEL CENTER INC’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. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Ralph W Muller
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $999k → $1.4M.
15 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $1.5M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KIMMEL CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KIMMEL CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
KIMMEL CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
41% 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 KIMMEL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 17% · 2019 26% · 2020 12% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
41% of KIMMEL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
75% of KIMMEL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M 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
KIMMEL CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding KIMMEL CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record — $181k federal, $4k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$181k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$4k
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 KIMMEL 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Kc Broad St Theater LLC · disregarded
- Academy of Music of Philadelphia Inc · exempt
- Philadelphia Orchestra Association · exempt
- The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc · exempt
- Ticket Philadelphia · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIMMEL 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 KIMMEL CENTER INC?
- KIMMEL CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,336,454 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($2,248,488). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIMMEL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $15,336,454 in grants to KIMMEL CENTER INC, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIMMEL CENTER INC?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,248,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIMMEL CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 104 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