Virginia · Nonprofit
RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE
RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,146,499 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,727,125). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $125M
What Richmond Performing Arts Alliance does
Mission
Richmond Performing Arts Alliance is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to advance the performing arts in the richmond region through programs and resources that support the artists of today, nurture the artists of tomorrow, and provide spaces for the arts to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rpaa is the steward of world-class venues that provide a home for 11 local resident companies, a broadway series, touring shows, corporate and private events, and other community-based arts organizations. Rpaa also implements a comprehensive arts education program the brightlights education initiatives. These initiatives include greater richmond wolf trap, the digital arts lab, and the genworth lights up! Youth series. All programming is offered free of charge or at a subsidized rate to youth, families, and educators. Additionally, rpaa works to increase the diversity of programs within the venues and broaden reach to new audiences, including the production of its own cabaret series that features local artists.
$1,616,161 spent$860,178 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,616,161.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $120M to $141M (+17%).
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: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Abbi Haggerty
Executive director
Board chair
Tom Topinka
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $68k → $634k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $689k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 34% · 2019 45% · 2020 72% · 2021 67% · 2022 61% · 2023 54% — 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
61% of RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
81% of RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $464k 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
RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE
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 Virginia
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
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Richmond Performing Arts Center Lllp · partnership
- Richmond Performing Arts Center Scp LLC · partnership
- Landmark Theater Lllp · partnership
- Landmark Theater Master Tenant LLC · partnership
- Landmark Theater Scp LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE?
- RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,146,499 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,727,125). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,146,499 in grants to RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,727,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 36 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