California · Nonprofit
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,630,924 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($3,205,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $70M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $98M
What Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County does
Mission
See schedule otmc champions the arts in los angeles for all people. Tmc connects the people of los angeles with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. Tmc embraces patrons, visitors and community members from all backgrounds. Tmc provides exceptional service to its resident companies and to all who present or experience the arts at its facilities. Tmc faithfully stewards the campus entrusted to it by the county of los angeles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Center operations: the music center ("tmc") maintains and operates the facilities on behalf of los angeles county. The facilities include: walt disney concert hall, dorothy chandler pavilion, ahmanson theatre, mark taper forum, jerry moss plaza, and gloria molina grand park ("park"). Tmc is home to four renowned resident companies: center theatre group, los angeles master chorale, los angeles opera company, and los angeles philharmonic association. Tmc provides facility maintenance, security, guest services, production, and scheduling and events management. In the current fiscal year, nearly 750,000 guests attended over 540 ticketed performances in tmc's venues.tmc also manages and operates los angeles county's 12-acre park. The park features multiuse lawns, stages, and open spaces available for both leisure and civic gatherings. The park typically has more than 1 million guests visit annually to enjoy its many ammenities. The park has become the central gathering place in los angeles for major holiday celebrations including july 4th and new year's eve.
$47,041,631 spent$50,126,345 earned by the program70% of program spendingTmc arts:tmc has developed a rapidly growing artistic role in los angeles county. All tmc arts' programs are developed through the lens of engagement and with a focus on creating programs that respond to and are reflective of the diverse populations that comprise los angeles county. This approach applies to the range of tmc arts programs, whether a ticketed presentation of a dance company in tmc's theatres for its "glorya kaufman presents dance at the music center" series, or a free and/or lowcost participatory program in the jerry moss plaza, such as tmc's "dance dtla." many of the events produced by tmc arts in the park are curated in conjunction with the park's numerous community partners. Tmc initiated a new digital initiative focused on immersive technology. Tmc also manages its highly respected arts learning programs, which typically reach 150,000 students and families annually and is the largest arts education program in los angeles.
$17,522,520 spentof which $967,762 as grants$6,968,405 earned by the program26% of program spendingCapital improvements:under the terms of the operating agreement with the county of los angeles, tmc transfers title of leasehold and other capital improvements to the county of los angeles upon purchase. As such, tmc expenses these purchases as they are incurred. Capital improvement expenses also include debt service related to bonds payable for the 2007 mark taper forum renovation, amortization of food and beverage contract acquisition costs, and various capital improvements across the tmc campus.
$2,652,341 spent$596,170 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $67,216,492.
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 2020 to 2021, from $97M to $147M (+52%).
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 4% · 2018 11% · 2019 24% · 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 22% · 2023 7% · 2024 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY’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. 5 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
Rachel S Moore
President and CEO
Board chair
Cindy Miscikowski
Chair, director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $1.6M.
20 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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: $14M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Music Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
42% 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 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 29% · 2019 69% · 2020 52% · 2021 65% · 2022 18% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
63% of PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
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
87% 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 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Music Center of Los Angeles County Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY?
- PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,630,924 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($3,205,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $15,630,924 in grants to PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY?
- THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY 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.
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 66 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