New Mexico · Nonprofit
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,947,602 to it, the largest being EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Lensic Performing Arts Center does
Mission
The historic lensic - santa fe's performing arts center - enriches lives by bringing diverse art and people together. Through its accessible and affordable programming, the lensic presents and supports locl and national artists and serves as a center for community, youth, and education events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization maintains and operates the historic lensic theater which functions year-round. The lensic is a home stage for our consortium partners, the santa fe symphony, santa fe pro musica, and santa fe chamber music, as well as many other local organizations like santa fe institute, aspen santa fe ballet, and amp. We offer discounted rentals, provide technical, box office, marketing support, and organizations keep their ticket revenue.
$3,451,708 spent$795,319 earned by the program34% of program spendingLensic presents programs: the Lensic Performing Arts Center has presented and produced performances of artists from around the world. The lensic's year-round programming is integral to fulfilling the organization's mission by presenting a wide-ranging, diverse series of programs and artists. Programs include popular concerts, dance shows, world music, jazz, classical music, comedy, and family-friendly programming. Lensic 360: in early 2023, in an effort to reach new and underserved audiences beyond those who are able to attend performances at the theater, we launched lensic 360. This new initiative presents a diverse array of events at other regional venues and the lensic in new mexico, including summer scene, a 50 show free concert series.
$6,341,950 spent$7,968,154 earned by the program63% of program spendingThe lensic's arts education programs have a twenty-year relationship with the public schools to bring elementary school children to daytime performances, providing what is for many children their first theater experience. The theater runs a technical internship program for local high-school youth which provides summer employment opportunities to the program's graduates. The education program lensic future voices also includes an annual film and photography competition for high school students across the state. In 2024, 50 new mexico schools attended these education events, serving more than 13,000 k-12 students.
$267,299 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,060,957.
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 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $23M (+20%).
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 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 39% · 2021 36% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Nancy Zeckendorf
Chair, found
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $78k → $388k.
15 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $864k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Fe Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 25% · 2019 52% · 2020 74% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% — 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 LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
50% of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $618k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER has grown faster than half of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS 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.
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 LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,947,602 to it, the largest being EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $4,947,602 in grants to LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Lensic Performing Arts Center →
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 81 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing