Texas · Nonprofit
PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON
PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,274,381 to it, the largest being THE WORTHAM FOUNDATION INC ($1,090,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Performing Arts Houston does
Mission
We connect audiences with exceptional artists through diverse performances and learning experiences. We ignite and cultivate passion for the performing arts to create community, inspire dialogue and enrich our world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performing Arts Houston offers culturally diverse programming ranging from world-renowed music, dance, theater, speakers and a variety of of other performance-based events that engage a wide range of audience demographics. Programming is partially underwritten by foundations, corporations, and individual donors to achieve the goal of making these world-class performances affordable for all audiences. Our 2024-2025 season showcased 32 domestic and international artists in 63 performances, complemented by numerous community engagement and outreach programs. From the lively kodo drummers from japan to the stunning ballet folklorico de mexico to family favorite bluey's big play, the season had something for everyone and reflected the rich diversity and interests of our community. A special highlight of the season was Performing Arts Houston's partnership with solange knowles and her collective saint heron which presented eldorado ballroom houston, a multi-disciplinary performance series celebrating the cultural legacy of houston's third ward and its historic eldorado ballroom. The series drew more than 5,200 attendees across five performances featuring classical, jazz and gospel music…
$4,971,590 spent$4,305,453 earned by the program91% of program spendingPerforming Arts Houston's education and community engagement programs leverage the diverse talents of the remarkable artists we present on our stages through a multitude of school and community events that promote access, discovery, and creativity in the performing arts. In our 2024-2025 season, our ece initiatives impacted close to 70,000 individuals through a dynamic range of programs both tied directly to our mainstage presentations as well as standalone community and school-based initiatives that extend beyond the stage. Highlights included our collaborative arts project which brought 10-week visual art and dance residencies directly into houston classrooms and our 27th annual student art contest, a free program open to k-12 students, which received 572 submissions from across our region with the artwork of winning students being displayed throughout houston in partnership with harris county public libraries. Ece programming connected to mainstage presentations included our heb performance prelude program, which showcased 21 local artistic ensembles in performances in the lobby areas of our theaters before mainstage shows. Our masterclasses and workshops as well as open…
$487,399 spent$3,000 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,458,989.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.0M to $7.3M (+22%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2022 35% · 2023 2% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON’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. 2 of the last 8 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
Meg Booth
Chief executive officer
Board chair
H William Swanstrom
Board chair/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $349k → $747k.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $905k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Arts Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON raised.
From the IRS filings of PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 HOUSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 27% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% — 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
50% of PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $672k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 HOUSTON runs a healthier operating margin 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 PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 HOUSTON
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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
- Performing Arts Houston Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON: 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 PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON?
- PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,274,381 to it, the largest being THE WORTHAM FOUNDATION INC ($1,090,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $5,274,381 in grants to PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON?
- THE WORTHAM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,090,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON 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 45 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