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THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC

THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $674,752 to it, the largest being UPSTATE THEATER COALITION FOR A FAIRGAME INC ($119,687). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.9M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$675k
Net assets
$5.7M
9/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What The Palace Performing Arts Center Inc does

Mission

To operate the historic palace theater a 2,800-seat cultural and entertainment facility that is located in albany, ny. The organization works to organize cultural and entertainment events presenting affordable, diverse, quality, popular performing arts for peoples of all ages, ethnicities and means.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To operate the palace theater and utilize its full potential as a cultural and entertainment center in albany, ny.

    $2,926,363 spent$3,747,897 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,926,363.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($5.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 120 ($6.5M) Expenses 108 ($5.6M) Net assets 172 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 120 ($6.5M) Expenses 144 ($7.4M) Net assets 94 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 64 ($3.5M) Expenses 71 ($3.7M) Net assets 77 ($983k)2021 Revenue 57 ($3.1M) Expenses 21 ($1.1M) Net assets 235 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 99 ($5.3M) Expenses 66 ($3.4M) Net assets 383 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 78 ($4.2M) Expenses 79 ($4.1M) Net assets 394 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 85 ($4.6M) Expenses 76 ($3.9M) Net assets 424 ($5.4M)2025 Revenue 92 ($4.9M) Expenses 89 ($4.6M) Net assets 452 ($5.7M)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (89)Net assets (452)Peer revenue range

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 $5.4M to $7.9M (+46%).

$2.7M
$5.0M
$4.0M
$3.6M
$5.4M
$7.9M
$7.5M
$8.0M
$7.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 85% · 2022 23% · 2023 1% · 2024 11% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$220k
’17
$919k
’18
−$994k
’19
−$215k
’20
$2.0M
’21
$1.9M
’22
$148k
’23
$658k
’24
$355k
’25
6.5
months of
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

Kevin Johnson

Executive director

Board chair

Stephen Baboulis

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181816181517191920
Joined·+1+0+3+0+3+5+0+4
No longer listed·12131303
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $125k → $56k.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’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

THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC 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

77% 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 PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.

18%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 25% · 2019 33% · 2020 69% · 2021 40% · 2022 52% · 2023 44% — 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

14% of THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

WA
NY
MA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve6.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 22%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $674,752 to it, the largest being UPSTATE THEATER COALITION FOR A FAIRGAME INC ($119,687). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $674,752 in grants to THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
UPSTATE THEATER COALITION FOR A FAIRGAME INC is the largest funder on record, with $119,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
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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 23 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