Virginia · Nonprofit
School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community
School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,908,233 to it, the largest being THE PAULEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community does
Mission
SPARC profoundly influences the lives of young people through exceptional performing arts education. It is SPARC's vision to inspire the confidence, creativity, and character of every young person in the country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$1,499,035 spentof which $138,759 as grants$807,806 earned by the program100% of program spendingLive Arts: SPARC's unique program of performing arts education classes and major public performance experiences, inclusive of students with and without disabilities. Live art partners with 11 other community organizations including nonprofits, public schools, private schools, and government agencies, who provide wide community support, space for class meetings, and a network for identifying students for participation. Participating students include those with developmental disabilities, hearing and vision impairment, and typically developing students, learning together in inclusive and peer-supportive environments.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,499,035.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.5M to $5.8M (+27%).
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 15% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community’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. 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.
Chief executive
John Tong
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $240k → $188k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $1.4M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community raised.
From the IRS filings of School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community’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
School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
76% 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 School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 49% · 2019 45% · 2020 24% · 2021 28% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% — 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
40% of School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
55% of School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $869k 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
School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community: 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 School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community?
- School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,908,233 to it, the largest being THE PAULEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,908,233 in grants to School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community?
- THE PAULEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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