California · Nonprofit
Performing Arts Workshop Inc
Performing Arts Workshop Inc (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,642,745 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,787,714). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $823k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Performing Arts Workshop Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to helping young people develop critical thinking, creative expression, and basic learning skills through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artists-In-Schools: The workshop partners with public schools serving a majority of historically underrepresented youth: each year at least 80% of youth we serve are in low/lower-income families; 41% reporting are English learners, and 11% have individualized educational plans. The youth in our classrooms bring a wealth of cultural and familiar values and traditions that are spoken to, nurtered and shared through the workshop.
$1,342,548 spent$185,038 earned by the program100% of program spendingSpace Rental: Since 2017, PAW has been in partnership with the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department as the new tenants of the Geneva Powerhouse. As part of the lease and community benefit agreement for the space, we have agreed to make the building available for below-market and market rate rentals on evenings and weekends. The rental program began at the end of 2021 due to COVID restrictions.
Advocacy: At Performing Arts Workshop, we believe that art programs are an essential part of each child's education. We also believe that the arts make youth more innovative, creative and better critical thinkers - which are vitally important skills for the 21st century. As a result, school districts, local and state government need to be held accountable for providing instruction in the arts. In 2008, Performing Artys Workshop launched its advocacy initiative to achieve this broader goal - beyond the bounds of what the organizations direct service can provide.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,342,548.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $2.6M (−29%).
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: 2021 49% · 2022 57% · 2023 37% · 2024 70% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of Performing Arts Workshop Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $430k → $270k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Performing Arts Workshop Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 Workshop Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 68% · 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 63% · 2022 49% · 2023 46% — 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
31% of Performing Arts Workshop Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
84% of Performing Arts Workshop Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Workshop Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Performing Arts Workshop Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$78k
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 Workshop 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Performing Arts Workshop 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 Performing Arts Workshop Inc?
- Performing Arts Workshop Inc (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,642,745 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,787,714). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Performing Arts Workshop Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,642,745 in grants to Performing Arts Workshop Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Performing Arts Workshop Inc?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,787,714 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Performing Arts Workshop Inc 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 31 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