Arizona · Nonprofit
PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,381 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($308,372). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $446k
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Phoenix Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
We are arizona's center stage, engaging the community through diverse experiences that ignite emotion, stimulate conversation, and inspire connections with the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The herberger theater is a 501(c)(3) arizona non-profit organization that engages the community through diverse experiences that ignite emotion, stimulates conversation and inspires connections with the arts. Opened in 1989 and fully renovated in 2010, the herberger theater offers three theater venues, art gallery, plaza, outdoor pavilion with stage, and rentable event space for a variety of community uses. The herberger theater hosts a diverse range of dramatic, dance and musical performances; is home to local theater and dance companies; its gallery provides a venue for arizona artists to present their works; and a plaza that hosts civic and arts events. Proceeds from annual fundraising benefits its youth outreach programs, designed to give arizona children (ages 3-19) opportunities to excel, learn and heal through experience with the arts. Over the last 36 years, 4.7 million patrons have enjoyed more than 18,000 performances at the herberger theater.
$2,324,291 spent$2,046,323 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,324,291.
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 $1.8M to $6.7M (+264%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 22% · 2022 40% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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. 2 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
Mark Mettes
CEO, preside
Board chair
Victoria Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $251k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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
PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 73% · 2022 54% · 2023 93% — 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
25% of PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
82% of PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $79k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
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In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,381 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($308,372). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $446,381 in grants to PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $308,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOENIX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 14 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