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KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER

KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,543,463 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($300,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.9M
Revenue FY2025
20
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 88 ($1.5M) Expenses 99 ($1.7M) Net assets 96 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 113 ($2.0M) Expenses 92 ($1.5M) Net assets 113 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 46 ($809k) Expenses 51 ($853k) Net assets 121 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 135 ($2.4M) Expenses 87 ($1.4M) Net assets 137 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 115 ($2.0M) Expenses 123 ($2.0M) Net assets 142 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 119 ($2.1M) Expenses 160 ($2.7M) Net assets 120 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 222 ($3.9M) Expenses 243 ($4.0M) Net assets 116 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (222)Expenses (243)Net assets (116)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 9% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 29% · 2022 46% · 2023 23% · 2024 7% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

61% of KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
18
$120k
19
$449k
20
$44k
21
$917k
22
$41k
23
$589k
24
$169k
25
4.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $49k → $80k.

10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)51% 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 KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER’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

KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

56% 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 KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER.

19%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 37% · 2019 59% · 2020 25% · 2021 38% · 2022 24% · 2023 33%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.

How long its funders stay

82% of KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

51% of KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER'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 $754k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Washington funders.

WA
NY
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $789k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 15%Fundraising 9%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER?
KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,543,463 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($300,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,543,463 in grants to KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER?
M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KIRKLAND CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing