Kentucky · Nonprofit
LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Kentucky) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,807 to it, the largest being FLOCK INC ($194,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $574k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $293k
- Net assets
- $793k
What Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center does
Mission
The mission of the lyric theatre and cultural arts center is to preserve, promote, present and celebrate diverse cultures with special emphasis on african-american cultural heritage through artistic presentations of the highest quality, educational programming and outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2025, the Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center continued to serve as an important cultural, educational, and community resource for lexington and the surrounding region. The organization fulfilled its nonprofit mission by providing arts education, cultural programming, historical preservation, artist support, and affordable community access to the arts for people of all ages and backgrounds.arts education and youth programming:the lyric provided youth arts programs, theatre workshops, after-school activities, cultural arts instruction, and creative enrichment opportunities that encouraged creativity, self-expression, confidence, and personal growth. The organization also offered free weekly community classes every tuesday including yoga, afrobeats dance, latin dance, acting classes, and opportunities for local filmmakers to showcase amateur films. Scholarships and free programming helped remove financial barriers for participation.community engagement and public programs:the lyric hosted concerts, festivals, speaker series, film screenings, wellness activities, educational forums, cultural celebrations, and civic events that brought the community together and…
$246,129 spent$177,912 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $246,129.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $500k to $704k (+41%).
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: 2021 28% · 2022 13% · 2023 19% · 2024 2% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Christian Adair
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $66k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS 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
LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
17% of LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% 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
LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER?
- LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Kentucky) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,807 to it, the largest being FLOCK INC ($194,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $292,807 in grants to LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER?
- FLOCK INC is the largest funder on record, with $194,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 10 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