California · Nonprofit
STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY
STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,313 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($47,313). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kelly Foundationshared funderslocal
- Reach-A-Star Foundationportfolio match
- Silicon Valley Createsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 20% · 2019 12% · 2020 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY’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
STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 0% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Kelly Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- Reach-A-Star Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silicon Valley Createsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sam Mazza Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perenchio Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Canet Foundation Co Global Business Management Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pasadena Showcase House For The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thelma Pearl Howard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John C Hench Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth Asawa Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 3 related entities
- Sacramento Ballet · exempt
- Capital Stage · exempt
- Alliance Francaise of Sacramento · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY?
- STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,313 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($47,313). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $57,313 in grants to STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $47,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS OPERATING COMPANY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing