Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,437,793 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($3,386,200). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $63M
What Mann Center for the Performing Arts does
Mission
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts-situated in historic fairmount park-seeks to advance its position as one of the nation's leading non-profit, outdoor summer performing arts festivals by: - creating a broad spectrum of high-quality, compelling, accessible, and fun, communal entertainment experiences in its acclaimed multi-stage campus. - providing leadership in arts education through innovative and high-impact, collaborative educational activities for young people throughout the philadelphia region. - being a deeply valued civic asset to everyone in the philadelphia region and a responsible community stakeholder in west philadelphia and our immediate neighborhoods. - making its facilities available as a public service to other non-profit organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mann's programming philosophy focuses on diversity and inclusion, presenting cultural programs, innovative festivals, and staging community events that appeal to a wide variety of public interests. Our education and community engagement department takes pride in its programs that are held on the mann's stages, in school district, charter and parochial schools, at our field education center, and in the community, admitted free of charge to the public. The mann works in partnership with philadelphia schools, acclaimed local and national artists, educators, nonprofit organizations, and arts institutions to provide young people access and opportunity to quality arts learning and experiences. The mann strives to connect communities through arts programming and partnerships creating a collective impact for the local neighborhoods.
$34,732,237 spent$33,786,871 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $34,732,237.
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 2024 to 2025, from $60M to $76M (+28%).
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 7% · 2018 13% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 43% · 2023 14% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’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. 2 of the last 9 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
Catherine Cahill
President & CEO
Board chair
Christopher L Bruner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $521k → $1.6M.
16 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
26% 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 MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 40% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 29% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% — 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
48% of MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS'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
88% of MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M 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
MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- National Endowment for the Arts$242k
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 MANN CENTER FOR THE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 MANN CENTER FOR THE 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 MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,437,793 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($3,386,200). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $14,437,793 in grants to MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,386,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 72 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