Georgia · Nonprofit
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 311 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,697,024 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($10,250,000). 201 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135M
- Funders on record
- 311
- Grants received
- $103M
- Net assets
- $578M
What Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc does
Mission
The woodruff arts center's mission is to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through a unique model of partnerships and collaborations, and in an institutionally sustainable manner.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Atlanta symphony orchestra: the atlanta symphony orchestra unites, educates, and enriches our community through the engaging and transformative power of orchestral music experiences. More than 150 concerts are performed each year including the delta classical series, movies in concert, family concert series, atlanta symphony hall live and the coca-cola holiday series, as well as community and education concerts. With excellent live performances, impressive guest artists, a renowned chorus, and engaging education initiatives, the grammy award winning atlanta symphony orchestra continues to be a leader in its industry.
$43,919,179 spent$25,378,176 earned by the program49% of program spendingHIGH MUSEUM OF ART: Located in the heart of Atlanta, the High Museum of Art connects with audiences from across the Southeast and around the world through its distinguished collection, dynamic schedule of special exhibitions and engaging community-focused programs. Housed within facilities designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Richard Meier and Renzo Piano, the High features a collection of more than 20,000 works of art, including an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American fine and decorative arts; major holdings of photography and folk and self-taught work, especially that of artists from the American South; burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, including paintings, sculpture, new media and design; a growing collection of African art, with work dating from prehistory through the present; and significant holdings of European paintings and works on paper. The High is dedicated to reflecting the diversity of its communities and offering a variety of exhibitions and educational programs that engage visitors with the world of art, the lives of artists and the creative process.
$27,040,800 spent$5,639,595 earned by the program30% of program spendingAlliance theatre: the alliance theatre is the leading producing theatre in the southeast, creating the powerful experience of shared theatre for diverse people. With a commitment to lead the national field by deeply engaging with its local community, modeling radical inclusion and catalytic experiences on our stages, in our classrooms, and throughout atlanta, the alliance theatre has played an important role since its inception in 1968. The alliance theatre received the regional theatre tony award in recognition of sustained excellence in programming education, and community engagement. As the leading producing theater in the southeast, the alliance theatre reaches more than 165,000 patrons annually while delivering powerful programming that challenges adult and youth audiences to think critically and care deeply.
$18,660,581 spent$9,265,048 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $89,620,560.
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 2020 to 2021, from $654M to $745M (+14%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 13% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 86 funders to 141 funders, grant income rose $5.5M → $17M.
32 of 311 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $58M from 21 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 311 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
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
27% 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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 11% · 2019 17% · 2020 10% · 2021 14% · 2022 20% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
75% of ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 43 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$915k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$519k
- Smithsonian Institution$20k
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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Aso Productions LLC · disregarded
- Alliance Theatre Productions LLC · disregarded
- E P McBurney Trust · corp_trust
- E P McBurney Trust · corp_trust
- Lucy Clair Harris Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC?
- ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 311 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,697,024 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($10,250,000). 201 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 311 organizations giving $102,697,024 in grants to ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC, 201 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC?
- THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 311 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