New Jersey · Nonprofit
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,772,930 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($15,663,350). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $284M
What New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation does
Mission
The new jersey performing arts center, by celebrating diversity, shall be america's foremost urban presenter of arts and entertainment, a creative and effective leader in arts education for children, a convener of useful and enlightening civic engagement events, and a catalyst for economic development in its home city of newark.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performances and performance related programs: presented 1,260 performances and events (of which 538 were free of charge) with 670,258 patrons in attendance. Programs included orchestra, recital, musical theater, dance, pop, variety, jazz and other disciplines, performed by local, national and international artists.
$36,994,015 spent$32,320,538 earned by the program58% of program spendingTheater operations: provided services for the management, operation and maintenance of the arts center, parking facilities and chambers plaza for public use and enjoyment.
$14,097,004 spent22% of program spendingSocial impact: njpac's social impact initiative leverages the arts to make positive changes in our community's health, education, community development and civic engagement. We do this through programs including: arts training for students, professional development for educators, in-school residencies, performances for school groups, arts programs in healthcare settings, an arts-on-prescription program, partnerships with community-based organizations across new jersey. Continued in schedule o.
$6,680,186 spentof which $254,674 as grants$524,156 earned by the program11% of program spendingMarketing and public affairsnjpac keeps the public and the media fully informed about its programs, events and educational activities.
$3,569,199 spent6% of program spendingReal estate developmentplanning, improvement and development of owned/leased real estate in furtherance of njpac's mission of being a catalyst in the economic development of its home city of newark.
$1,903,698 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,244,102.
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 2023 to 2024, from $282M to $349M (+24%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 31% · 2023 16% · 2024 14% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
John Schreiber
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $739k → $6.1M.
16 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $5.0M from 18 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 78% · 2019 63% · 2020 46% · 2021 48% · 2022 29% · 2023 17% — 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
57% of NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
72% of NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M 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
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION 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 NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record — $1.8M federal, $8k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- Department of Education$552k
- National Endowment for the Arts$230k
- TRUST FUND$8k
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 NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Theater Square Development Company LLC · disregarded
- Hip Hop Nutcracker Tour LLC · disregarded
- Nj Media Production Stages LLC · disregarded
- Njpac Tsd 1 LLC · disregarded
- Nj Media Production Management LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION?
- NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,772,930 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($15,663,350). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $47,772,930 in grants to NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,663,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 119 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