New York · Nonprofit
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,848,454 to it, the largest being CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($2,200,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
For over 57 years, the saratoga performing arts center, in heart of the glorious spa state park in saratoga springs, ny, has been the summer home of new york city ballet and the philadelphia orchestra, and the location of more than a thousand performances of best-in-class artists across all genres. As it moves into the future, spac embraces its role as a steward of its place in the natural world and the transformative power of beauty in human lives. Spac works to harness that power from both human-made and natural sources to forge deep connections from person to person and person to planet through a future that embraces an ever-expanding definition of the arts including performing arts, visual arts, literary arts, culinary arts, healing arts and beyond. In its work on behalf of art, artists and community, spac works to educate, reveal, inspire, and serve the beauty in the world which connects, respects, and elevates all human beings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The presentation of the performing arts in order to sponsor, cultivate and develop an understanding and appreciation of such art by the center's members and the community. We present 70-80 events throughout the year, reaching over 350,000 people each year in the areas of dance, orchestra, chamber music, jazz, and rock and roll. Our facility is the summer home to the philadelphia orchestra, the new york city ballet, and the chamber music society of new york. Our educational initiatives, both in our on-campus school of the arts and through our outreach in public schools throughout the region bring the arts to more than 50,000 children each year.
$11,752,075 spent$8,252,199 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,752,075.
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 2019 to 2020, from $16M to $24M (+52%).
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 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 18% · 2021 32% · 2022 13% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Elizabeth Sobol
President and CEO
Board chair
Charles Wait Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $426k → $1.4M.
21 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Francisco Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 26% · 2019 20% · 2020 33% · 2021 28% · 2022 32% · 2023 18% — 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 SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC'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
57% of SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC'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 $3.8M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 SARATOGA PERFORMING 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Museum of Dance · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,848,454 to it, the largest being CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($2,200,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $8,848,454 in grants to SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 81 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