Indiana · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,036,001 to it, the largest being Freshgrass Public Foundation ($2,356,067). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $17M
What The Center for the Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
The mission of the center for the performing arts is to engage and inspire the central indiana community through enriching arts experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artistic performance:the mission of the nonprofit allied solutions center for the performing arts is to engage and inspire the indiana community through enriching arts experiences. Its campus includes a 1,500-seat concert hall, the payne & mencias palladium; a 500-seat proscenium theater, the tarkington; and the black-box studio theater. Allied solutions center presents and hosts hundreds of events each year, including the center presents performance season, featuring the best in classical, jazz, pop, rock, american songbook, comedy and other genres. Allied solutions center is home to the affiliated great american songbook foundation and provides space and support services for six resident arts companies. Since opening in 2011, the campus has hosted nearly 4,000 performances for 1.6 million ticketed patrons hailing from all 92 indiana counties, all 50 states and 30-plus nations.
$6,349,073 spent$6,115,460 earned by the program88% of program spendingEducation and outreach:allied solutions center serves the community through a range of educational experiences and outreach events for all ages, including classes in music and stand-up comedy, campus tours, masterclasses, clinics, exclusive artist q&a sessions for students, the peanut butter & jam preschool performance series, the palladium bookies reading club, the luminaries weekday speaker series, the prism project performing arts camp for youth with disabilities, and the new works artist commission program. During fiscal year 2025, attendance at these programs totaled more than 11,500.the permanently affiliated great american songbook foundation was founded in 2007 by performer and preservationist michael feinstein with a mission to inspire and educate by celebrating the great american songbook. The foundation is home to a public exhibit gallery and the vast songbook library & archives, which preserves artifacts, arrangements, correspondence and other materials from the personal collections of composers, performers and other figures from the 20th century foundational era of american popular music. Each year the foundation conducts the songbook academy summer intensive, a…
$844,147 spent$50,216 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,193,220.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $19M (+26%).
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 42% · 2018 39% · 2019 29% · 2020 28% · 2021 66% · 2022 46% · 2023 25% · 2024 24% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’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. 0 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
Jeff Mcdermott
CEO
Board chair
Kathleen Krusie
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $198k → $1.6M.
16 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 43% · 2019 29% · 2020 57% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 75% — 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
41% of THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$12k
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 THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,036,001 to it, the largest being Freshgrass Public Foundation ($2,356,067). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $4,036,001 in grants to THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- Freshgrass Public Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,356,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 44 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