Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,164 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF TENNESSEE INC ($500,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $133M
What Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation does
Mission
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education, resident art groups and other arts organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tpac's mission is to champion excellence in the performing arts and arts education, foster support for our resident companies and community partners and serve as an inclusive place for all to enjoy meaningful and relevant experiences that enrich lives and promote economic vitality. One of the most visible ways tpac extends our mission into the community is through our programming. In fy25, programming consisted of our broadway at tpac series, tpac presents and our expanded arts programming which included dance, family programming, and a revitalized cabaret series. Our dance series was expanded to include four companies, including a nashville premiere presentation of the well-known joffrey ballet. Tpac is the proud performance home of the nashville opera, nashville ballet, and nashville repertory theater. Tpac provided support services and subsidized rent to these producing organizations in addition to investing and supporting their work. After investing in our resident company, nashville ballet, for their presentation of firebird during the fy24 budget cycle, in fy25 tpac invested in marketing support for the production of sondheim's sunday in the park with george, as part of the…
$23,257,052 spent$25,736,189 earned by the program97% of program spendingTpac maintains high standards for programming and education activities that benefit the entire community. In addition to offering a diverse season of culturally engaging performances by local and national artists, tpac provides six distinct programs that provide extended educational services to students, families and tpac audiences:during the 2025 fiscal year, the season for young people (previously called humanities outreach in tennessee) presented professional performances of theater, dance and music for student audiences. The season included live performances at tpac as well as virtual performances available for students to view remotely from their classroom. During the 2024-2025 academic year, 37,351 students and teachers from 298 school groups attended season for young people performances (45,527 students and teachers from 295 school groups during the 2023-2024 academic year).two programs were discontinued as of 2025: the "arts integration programs in schools and "wolf trap early learning through the arts." resources for these school-based programs were reallocated to further develop tpac's community-focused opportunities. As a result in 2024-25, community engagement services…
$615,594 spent$386,500 earned by the program3% of program spendingInsideout program activities provide opportunities for adults who want to grow in their knowledge and enjoyment of the performing arts. Events at tpac, in community locations, and through virtual options provided opportunities for audiences of all ages to interact with the performing arts. 1,182 life-long learners viewed and participated in tpac's education and community engagement public programming in 2023-24. Virtual and in-person panel discussions and presentations highlighted local arts and community groups; classes explored musical theater, dance and acting, and webinars and podcasts reached remote participants. (1,958 individuals participated in insideout during 2022-2023).
Arts integration programs in schools (working title) was launched in 2021 following the discontinuation of the artsmart program. This initiative supports multi-year partnerships planned with a limited number of schools in a whole-school model. One school engaged in a whole-school partnership in 2023-24. A total of 385 students and teachers at warner elementary participated in arts integrated residencies and professional development provided by tpac in 2023-2024 (400 students and teachers at warner elementary participated in 2022-2023).
The spotlight awards celebrates, supports, and grows the artistry and capacity of high school musical theatre programs in tennessee. Through the program, high school theatre students and teachers participate in workshops and development opportunities with theatre professionals, and their school musicals are evaluated by a diverse panel of adjudicators. The program culminates in may when exemplary work is recognized with the spotlight awards ceremony at tpac, where the top contenders for "outstanding musical" perform and honors are presented in a variety of categories, including two who are recognized as "outstanding lead performer." the recipients of these two awards then move on to national consideration for the jimmy awards in new york. In 2023-2024, 53 tennessee high schools and 3,082 students participated in the program, including more than 1,800 attending the live spotlight awards ceremony at tpac. (in 2022-23, 44 high schools and 3,738 students participated in spotlight activities provided by tpac.)
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,872,646.
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 2023 to 2024, from $37M to $130M (+254%).
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 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 75% · 2022 28% · 2023 4% · 2024 62% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION’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 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
Jennifer Turner
President & CEO
Board chair
Melvin Malone
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $263k → $645k.
13 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $8.6M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tennessee Performing Arts Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
66% 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 TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 28% · 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% — 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
60% of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
90% of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
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 TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Tennessee Performing Arts Foundation · exempt
- Nashville Institute for the Arts · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION?
- TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,164 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF TENNESSEE INC ($500,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $4,177,164 in grants to TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION?
- DELTA DENTAL OF TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 63 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