California · Nonprofit
New Performance Traditions
New Performance Traditions (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,249,338 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($648,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What New Performance Traditions does
Mission
New Performance Traditions incubates multidisciplinary projects from conception to production through performance & recording. Through creating risk-taking performances and supporting their creators, NPT engenders a more equitable, inclusive, & creative community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Composition, commissioning, production and performance of contemporary interdisciplinary performing arts, classical music and opera, locally, nationally, and internationally. Paul Dresher was commissioned to compose a new work for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company this year. The organization co-produced two runs of Ghost Quartet with Oakland Theater Project, in addition to the return of repertoire favorite, Schick Machine.
$204,206 spent$65,471 earned by the program21% of program spendingProduction support and fiscal sponsorship for local performing artists and arts groups. Production support includes providing free or affordable rehearsal and production space to local artists and arts groups, honoraria, and administrative and technical resources.
$750,523 spentof which $237,389 as grants$205,832 earned by the program79% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $954,729.
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 2021 to 2022, from $383k to $1.3M (+238%).
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 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 17% · 2020 8% · 2021 20% · 2022 8% · 2023 22% · 2024 10% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of New Performance Traditions’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dominique Pelletey
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $43k → $236k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 New Performance Traditions’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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 Performance Traditions leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 82% · 2019 87% · 2020 40% · 2021 69% · 2022 57% · 2023 55% — 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
75% of New Performance Traditions'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
89% of New Performance Traditions's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Performance Traditions is better cushioned than half 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
Government funding New Performance Traditions receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 Performance Traditions
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 California
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
82%
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 New Performance Traditions: 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 New Performance Traditions?
- New Performance Traditions (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,249,338 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($648,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Performance Traditions have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,249,338 in grants to New Performance Traditions, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Performance Traditions?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $648,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Performance Traditions find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 23 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