Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,175,176 to it, the largest being MARCUS CORPORATION FOUNDATION INC ($1,290,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
The marcus center for the performing arts acts as an energizing force that connects our community to the world through collaboration, innovation, social engagement and the transformative power of live performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The marcus center for the performing arts offers a diverse mix of community, cultural and commercial programming and arts education that embodies our vision to be a community gathering place for all. Mpac presents programming including broadway, music, dance and other performing arts and also offers facilities and services for others to rent for a wide range of performing arts and community gathering.
$19,664,474 spent$15,565,160 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,664,474.
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 2023 to 2024, from $24M to $19M (−22%).
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: 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 36% · 2022 44% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’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. 4 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
Kevin Giglinto
CEO
Board chair
David Marcus
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $988 → $645k.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $487k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 39% · 2020 67% · 2021 66% · 2022 59% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
94% of MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC has grown faster than half of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
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 MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
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 Wisconsin
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
98%
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 MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: 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 MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,175,176 to it, the largest being MARCUS CORPORATION FOUNDATION INC ($1,290,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,175,176 in grants to MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- MARCUS CORPORATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 33 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