Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being DETTWILLER FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $18M
What Tennessee Performing Arts Foundation does
Mission
This organization may fundraise and is responsible for managing the tennessee performing arts center endowment in order to provide income to help defray operating costs of the tennessee performing arts center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Payments made to the tennessee performing arts center in order to help defray operating expenses in bringing the performing arts to tennessee.
$799,023 spentof which $799,023 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $799,023.
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 $18M to $15M (−16%).
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.
0% of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION’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
Jennifer Turner
Pres/sec/tpac pres & CEO
Board chair
J Reginald Hill
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 FOUNDATION 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 TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tennessee Performing Arts Center Management Corporation (Tpac) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION?
- TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being DETTWILLER FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION?
- DETTWILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION 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.
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 1 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