Florida · Nonprofit
MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,500 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Maxwell C King Center for the Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
To improve the quality of life for all residents of brevard county through cultural, educational, recreational and community arts programs by providing access to high quality challenging and diverse touring and local performing arts events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The center's 2024-2025 season offered 77 main stage events. The center also presented a free concert again that was presented by the brevard symphony orchestra to engage the community in the cultural arts program.
$7,492,234 spent$6,759,733 earned by the program73% of program spendingDuring fiscal year 2024-2025, the center purchased a new front-of-house console with a stage box to enhance the audience sound while also enhancing the setup for the artist. The center also underwent construction for the back-of-house which included converting the kitchen to a full-service kitchen, adding additions to the patrons' restrooms, renovating the rotunda space, the backstage studio space, the group restrooms/dressing rooms, and the green room and patio.
$2,742,820 spentof which $2,742,820 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,235,054.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.5M to $10M (+36%).
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: 2022 36% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Anthony J Catanese
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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: $45k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Brevard Cultural Alliance Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’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
MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Eastern Florida State College · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAXWELL C KING 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 MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,500 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $92,500 in grants to MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAXWELL C KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAXWELL C KING 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 Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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