Nevada · Nonprofit
PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Nevada) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,969 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($157,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $261k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts does
Mission
Manage and maintain the cultural arts center for northern nevada community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation, maintenance and operation of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, a cultural center listed on the national, state and city historic registers. Presentation of performing arts programming and rental of the pioneer center to local, national, and international performing arts groups for the promotion of cultural arts and the encrichment of the northern nevada community. 24-25 season programming total: 127 live performing arts events at the pioneer center, serving a total of 131,946 patrons.
$3,571,135 spentof which $5,625 as grants$4,426,670 earned by the program94% of program spendingPresentation of performing arts programming in elementary schools and public libraries throughout northwestern nevada for educational outreach activities designed for young children. Presentation of performing arts programming in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, community centers and other public gathering places throughout washoe county for arts outreach activities specifically designed for senior citizens.
$209,842 spent$32,300 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,780,977.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $19M (+21%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 36% · 2022 25% · 2023 2% · 2024 27% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’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 7 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
Dennyse Sewell
CEO
Board chair
Tom Clark
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $13k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’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
PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 45% · 2019 83% · 2020 96% · 2021 25% · 2022 94% · 2023 39% — 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 PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
64% of PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS'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 $93k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Organizations like PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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 Nevada
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
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Nevada) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,969 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($157,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $260,969 in grants to PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $157,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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