California · Nonprofit
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Segerstrom Center for the Arts (California) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,299,974 to it, the largest being ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,625,304). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $375M
What Segerstrom Center for the Arts does
Mission
Enriches and transforms lives by entertaining, educating, engaging our community through exceptional programs for our stages, for the classroom, and for our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Center presentations Segerstrom Center for the Arts is one of the nation's premier arts organizations. It is a unique achievement of community vision, initiative, artistic accomplishment and generosity known for its stunning architecture and technical facilities, impeccable acoustics and the exceptional quality of the companies and artists who perform here. The center, orange county's largest non-profit arts organization,offers the world's leading dance companies, broadway shows, award-winning classical, jazz and cabaret artists, family entertainment, special events and year-round educational programs. The center encompasses the 3,000-seat opera house style segerstrom hall, the 2,000-seat renee and henry segerstrom concert hall, the 500-seat multi-functional samueli theater, 250-seat judy morr theatre and 46,000-square-foot julianne and george argyros plaza. The education center includes the studio performance space and boeing education lab as well as the offices for the center's education department. Other amenities include two private donor rooms, george's cafe and the elegant leatherby's cafe rouge. The performance venues all feature artist amenities, including dressing rooms,…
$48,114,946 spent$39,959,907 earned by the program71% of program spendingHall rental operations Segerstrom Center for the Arts is also the home of three resident companies: pacific symphony, the philharmonic society of orange county, and pacific chorale. Together the resident companies have over 100 performances a year at the center. In addition to the resident companies, the center also rents to other users.
$14,021,268 spent$8,816,350 earned by the program21% of program spendingCommunity engagement and education programs the center has one of the nation's most respected education and community engagement departments to serve orange county's diverse communities. Their programs reach more than 360,000 students in elementary through university levels, educators and families with programs and events at the center and in schools and community events throughout southern california. Many performances in family oriented productions are sensory friendly and asl interpreted. The center is also home to the american ballet theatre william j. Gillespie school for young dancers 3-18 and studio d: arts school for all abilities.
$5,329,672 spent$2,143,970 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $67,465,886.
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 $446M to $524M (+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: 2021 3% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Segerstrom Center for the Arts’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Casey Reitz
President/CEO
Board chair
John Phelan
Chair of the board/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 53 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $4.3M.
22 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $143k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Orange County's United Way). These are real filings, and they are not money Segerstrom Center for the Arts raised.
From the IRS filings of Segerstrom Center for the Arts’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 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
Segerstrom Center for the Arts has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 11% · 2020 10% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 19% — 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
53% of Segerstrom Center for the Arts'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
92% of Segerstrom Center for the Arts's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M 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
Segerstrom Center for the Arts 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
Organizations like Segerstrom 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 California
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
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Segerstrom 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 Segerstrom Center for the Arts?
- Segerstrom Center for the Arts (California) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,299,974 to it, the largest being ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,625,304). 98 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Segerstrom Center for the Arts have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $34,299,974 in grants to Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 98 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Segerstrom Center for the Arts?
- ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,625,304 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Segerstrom Center for the Arts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 146 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