Texas · Nonprofit
SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,899 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($380,985). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Sammons Center for the Arts does
Mission
The center grows the arts, in and for this community, by providing essential support uniquely focused on the needs of local performing artists, art groups, audiences, and arts education to enrich the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The center provides the north texas community with resources and a facility for performing artists and nonprofit organizations to pursue their craft. Through its cultural community resources program, the sammons center is the sole provider of an affordable facility and administrative, operational and educational resources for small and midsize performing arts groups in north texas. It is home to 14 performing arts groups representing dance, theater, orchestral music, and choral music. It provides low-cost rehearsal, audition, meeting, workshop and performance space to its resident groups and more than 90 other nonprofit cultural organizations.
$536,735 spent$176,714 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe sammons centers critical mission outreach activities are both actual and virtual, designed to promote efficiency, innovation and success while making the arts accessible to all. It hosts talks, workshops and similar professional development opportunities for emerging arts groups. It plays a key role in organizing two citywide events held each april, dallas art month and dallas jazz appreciation month. It supports and assists artists and nonprofit arts groups of any size by providing free online information, tools, and access to current best practice concepts on multiple topics related to arts management.
$693,213 spentof which $75,000 as grants46% of program spendingAdditionally, the sammons center presents its own distinctive performance series. Concert programming consists of sammons jazz, the premier jazz series in north texas featuring local jazz musicians; sammons cabaret, a series highlighting local singers in a celebration of the great american songbook and contemporary vocal music; and sammons center discovery, a presentation of unique genres, musicians, and instruments. Sammons jazz includes an interactive youth jazz outreach initiative serving underprivileged youth ages 6-12.
$281,616 spent$72,312 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,511,564.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $2.1M (+37%).
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 27% · 2018 21% · 2019 18% · 2020 28% · 2021 42% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% · 2024 26% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Joanna St Angelo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $28k → $143k.
4 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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: $1.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sammons Center Endowment Corp); $185k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE 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
SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 64% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 36% · 2023 42% — 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
41% of SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $691k 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
SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS is better cushioned than half 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 SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sammons Center Endowment Corp · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,899 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($380,985). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,419,899 in grants to SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $380,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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