Indiana · Nonprofit
PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC
PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,916 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ($255,653). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $551k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Percussive Arts Society Inc does
Mission
To inspire, educate, and support percussionists and drummers throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Member services: percussive arts society, inc. (pas) serves an international subscriber base of more than 5,000 individuals. Pas subscribers have exclusive access to online digital archives, educational resources, research tools, and the pas video library. Pas publishes a professional journal, percussive notes, six times per year, and a print magazine, drumset, four times per year. Pas has forty-nine chapters in the united states and forty-nine international chapters. Pas provides grant support for chapter events promoting percussion through festivals, clinics, and competitions. Pas hosts regional percussion ensemble competitions and festivals in various locations across the united states to provide students with opportunities to learn music and percussion through performance and expert adjudicator feedback. Pas provides academic scholarships to full time students pursuing percussion education as well as scholarships to students for assistance to attend the annual percussion convention.
$448,872 spent$62,164 earned by the program34% of program spendingPasic: pas hosts one of the largest in-person drum and percussion events in the world, an annual 4-day educational conference titled the percussive arts society international convention (pasic), with over 5,000 attendees from all over the world. Pasic attendees have access to over 100 clinics, concerts, masterclasses, workshops and interactive experiences presented by leading artists and teaching professionals. Pasic also includes a tradeshow featuring more than 100 brands debuting new instruments, gear, and music to play and buy. Pasic showcases all areas of percussion, including drum set, marching, keyboard, symphonic, world, education, technology, and more.
$820,405 spent$929,902 earned by the program62% of program spendingLocal educational services: pas is the steward of a collection of historic artifacts, rare percussion instruments and a research library of percussion scores, methods and recordings from around the world. Pas provides local educational programming in the indianapolis community designed to provide a space to explore the world of percussion first-hand. Attendees learn about playing techniques, delve into individual instruments, and enjoy musical performances from local and national artists and ensembles.
$61,271 spentof which $32,145 as grants$22,387 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,330,548.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $5.0M (+25%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY 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 6 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
Joshua Simonds
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY 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
PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 95% · 2021 57% · 2022 45% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
71% of PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
99% of PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $181k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$125k
- National Endowment for the Arts$56k
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 PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY 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 PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC?
- PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,916 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ($255,653). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $550,916 in grants to PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $255,653 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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