Wisconsin · Nonprofit
OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC
OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,231,338 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,820,549). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Overture Center Foundation Inc does
Mission
The organization operates the overture center for the arts, a performing and visual arts center. Its mission is to enrich the lives of individuals and the community by creating, encouraging, and catalyzing extraordinary experiences. The overture center presents a broad spectrum of high quality performing arts programming and educational outreach programs. The center raises funds to support free and low-cost community programs as well as other programs and initiatives to advance the mission. Nine local performing arts companies are resident organizations of the center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Overture center hosts over 700 events with our box office selling approximately 365,000 tickets annually. Overture center presents a diverse mix of performances, including broadway, national tours, cabaret, lectures, comedy, concerts, dance and local arts performances. Overture center is the performance home to nine local, nonprofit resident arts companies who annually sell over 100,000 tickets to their performances and receive rental subsidies and some shared services from overture to support their work. Overture center fulfills the core of its mission through fourteen education and engagement programs to ensure extraordinary experiences in the arts are accessible to all. Nearly 190,000 people annually attend free/low-cost performances and exhibits or participate in its school-based programs. This represents 37% of the 500,000+ total annual artistic experiences. These programs include 'onstage student field trips' that provide nearly 18,000 prek-12 students with access to daytime performances at the center, 'kids in the rotunda' free families performances that serve 24,000 people and the jerrys, a high school musical excellence program that engages over 100 schools across the…
$22,798,105 spent$18,632,792 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,798,105.
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 $21M to $36M (+72%).
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 8% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 7% · 2021 41% · 2022 46% · 2023 6% · 2024 6% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION 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. 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.
Board chair
James Yehle
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $581k → $489k.
14 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 93% · 2019 41% · 2020 35% · 2021 59% · 2022 41% · 2023 45% — 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
41% of OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
92% of OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION 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 $425k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M 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
OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned 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
Organizations like OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
- Overture Development Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION 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 OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC?
- OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,231,338 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,820,549). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $5,231,338 in grants to OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,820,549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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