Alabama · Nonprofit
Magic City Performing Arts
Magic City Performing Arts (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being ALFA FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $67k
What Magic City Performing Arts does
Mission
MCPA lives its mission in five ways - training, mentoring, performing, serving, and building community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Don Quixote
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Organizations primary purpose is to provide affordable or even no-cost access to our performances. Our goal is to eliminate financial barriers and make dance more diverse, while also creating meaningful opportunities for young individuals and fostering positive social change in our community. The Magic City Nutcracker provides a beautiful holiday tradition and is suitable for all ages. Participants range from the age of five and through adulthood and play a variety of parts depending on skill levels. The Organization has also provided free ballet classes for the local boys and girls club that participated in the event.
$89,884 spent$160,299 earned by the program48% of program spendingDon Quixote expanded our collection of classical ballets that dancers are able to learn, which in turn helps their ballet education. We strive to create performance opportunities for dancers ages five through adulthood at all performance levels.
$86,010 spent$43,090 earned by the program46% of program spendingSummer intensive and workout classes are designed for dancers ages five through adulthood for the purpose of training technique as well as bringing in master teachers to the program, giving local community students a chance to learn from some of the industrys best instructors.
$6,491 spent$8,840 earned by the program3% of program spendingMagic City Performing Arts decided to expand the performance opportunities beyond the Nutcracker, and created an event that showcases local choreographers work along with classical ballet repertoire. Ballet In The Park is a free performance in a city park for people of all ages and backgrounds to see ballet and contemporary dance at a pre-professional or professional level. The event aims to provide a free performing arts event for our community.
$4,331 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,716.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $56k to $77k (+37%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of Magic City Performing Arts’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Allison West
Boutique Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Magic City Performing Arts’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Magic City Performing Arts's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Magic City Performing Arts has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Magic City 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Magic City 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Magic City Performing Arts?
- Magic City Performing Arts (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being ALFA FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Magic City Performing Arts have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to Magic City Performing Arts.
- Who is the largest funder of Magic City Performing Arts?
- ALFA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Magic City Performing Arts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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