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PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC

PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,150,199 to it, the largest being The Philecology Foundation ($14,013,959). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$25M
Funders on record
46
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
$134M
37/46 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Performing Arts Fort Worth Inc does

Mission

To serve as a permanent home to major arts organizations of fort worth and as a premier venue for touring attractions and to promulgate arts education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Productions and performances - see schedule o general statement 1.

    $21,474,099 spent$18,905,326 earned by the program
    94% of program spending
  2. Educational programs - see schedule o general statement 1.

    $1,308,704 spentof which $17,000 as grants
    6% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,782,803.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($39M) Expenses 100 ($18M) Net assets 100 ($114M)2018 Revenue 47 ($18M) Expenses 96 ($18M) Net assets 103 ($117M)2019 Revenue 45 ($18M) Expenses 103 ($19M) Net assets 105 ($119M)2020 Revenue 41 ($16M) Expenses 102 ($19M) Net assets 104 ($118M)2021 Revenue 18 ($7.1M) Expenses 47 ($8.7M) Net assets 114 ($130M)2022 Revenue 79 ($31M) Expenses 124 ($23M) Net assets 108 ($123M)2023 Revenue 50 ($20M) Expenses 124 ($23M) Net assets 110 ($125M)2024 Revenue 66 ($26M) Expenses 144 ($26M) Net assets 114 ($129M)2025 Revenue 63 ($25M) Expenses 140 ($26M) Net assets 118 ($134M)
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Revenue (63)Expenses (140)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

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 $140M to $130M (−7%).

$119M
$123M
$131M
$131M
$140M
$130M
$135M
$141M
$147M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

9% of PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 810 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$21M
’17
$920k
’18
−$966k
’19
−$2.8M
’20
−$1.6M
’21
$8.3M
’22
−$2.8M
’23
−$357k
’24
−$600k
’25
13
months of
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

Dione Kennedy

President & CEO

Board chair

Elaine B Agather

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed454346444445454649
Joined·+0+7+4+3+6+6+3+6
No longer listed·24635623
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $14M → $312k.

4 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $3.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nancy Lee and Perry R Bass Performance Hall Endowment Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC raised.

From the IRS filings of PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 FORT WORTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82%
largest funder
86%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 22% · 2019 32% · 2020 40% · 2021 25% · 2022 45% · 2023 32% — 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

42% of PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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NY
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve13.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

35
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bass Performance Hall Endowment Trust · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC?
PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,150,199 to it, the largest being The Philecology Foundation ($14,013,959). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC have?
IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $17,150,199 in grants to PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC?
The Philecology Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $14,013,959 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 46 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