New Jersey · Nonprofit
SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC
SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,803 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($158,325). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $869k
- Net assets
- $989k
What South Orange Performing Arts Centerinc does
Mission
The south orange performing arts center offers audiences exhilarating and diverse arts entertainment in its intimate venue, serving as the cultural heartbeat of the greater south orange/maplewood region and contributing to the economic and social vibrancy of its highly diverse community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the year ended 06/30/2025, 163 performances took place at sopac. Sopac's programming is a carefully curated mix, with both popular appeal and cultural relevance, reflecting the diverse communities served. Sopac's superb acoustics and small size create a unique and intimate connection between artists and audiences. Sopac features singer-songwriters, rock, jazz, blues, r&b, folk, tribute bands, world music, and comedy events; supports the work of new jersey's choreographers and dance companies and presents inspiring children's programming. Sopac presented 13 shows to school audiences, servicing more than 6500 students from over 75 school districts in: bergen, essex, hudson, morris, union, somerset, and passaic counties.
$2,068,206 spent$1,553,457 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,068,206.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $2.8M (+98%).
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 14% · 2018 15% · 2019 13% · 2020 15% · 2021 46% · 2022 61% · 2023 15% · 2024 19% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Svetlana Rogachevskaya
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $41k → $115k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 27% · 2019 32% · 2020 18% · 2021 26% · 2022 43% · 2023 28% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
72% of SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$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 SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC
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 Jersey
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
90%
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 SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC: 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 SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC?
- SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,803 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($158,325). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $868,803 in grants to SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $158,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 35 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