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PRIMA ARTS INC

PRIMA ARTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,225 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT J GUNTERBERG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($965,947). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$975k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$544k
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Prima Arts Inc does

Mission

Provide accessible performing arts programming that enriches and engages the local community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Presented community-focused professional theatre productions and related educational programs to enrich the cultural life of lancaster county residents and promote access to the performing arts.

    $669,328 spent$423,626 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $669,328.

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 ($307k) Expenses 100 ($314k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 126 ($386k) Expenses 113 ($354k) Net assets 197 ($64k)2019 Revenue 133 ($407k) Expenses 170 ($534k) Net assets -192 ($-62653)2020 Revenue 160 ($490k) Expenses 132 ($414k) Net assets 42 ($14k)2021 Revenue 200 ($614k) Expenses 176 ($553k) Net assets 223 ($73k)2022 Revenue 173 ($532k) Expenses 217 ($681k) Net assets -261 ($-85242)2023 Revenue 148 ($453k) Expenses 119 ($374k) Net assets -10 ($-3281)2025 Revenue 318 ($975k) Expenses 339 ($1.1M) Net assets 1668 ($544k)
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Revenue (318)Expenses (339)Net assets (1668)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 2017 to 2018, from $35k to $682k (+1823%).

$35k
$682k
$535k
$899k
$681k
$506k
$576k
$812k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 27% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of PRIMA ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
$32k
’18
−$127k
’19
$76k
’20
$61k
’21
−$149k
’22
$79k
’23
−$89k
’25
5.6
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.

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Listed11881010121110
Joined·+2+0+6+0+3+0·
No longer listed·504011·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $46k → $183k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 PRIMA ARTS 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

PRIMA ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

29% 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 PRIMA ARTS INC.

62%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 43% · 2021 87% · 2022 83% · 2023 49% — 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

33% of PRIMA ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

PRIMA ARTS INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.

PA
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

PRIMA ARTS INC is better cushioned than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PRIMA ARTS 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 20%Fundraising 17%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PRIMA ARTS INC?
PRIMA ARTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,225 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT J GUNTERBERG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($965,947). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PRIMA ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,570,225 in grants to PRIMA ARTS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRIMA ARTS INC?
THE ROBERT J GUNTERBERG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $965,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRIMA ARTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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