California · Nonprofit
THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM
THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,900 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANKTON CHARITABLE TRUST ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $435k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $328k
- Net assets
- $150k
What The Performance Art Museum does
Mission
The Performance Art Museum (pam) is the first u.s. Institution exclusively dedicated to the presentation and preservation of live art. Our mission is to facilitate the powerful impact of live experiences that can profoundly transform our awareness of the present moment. The establishment of pam is crucial in filling historical voids in representation and archiving the performance art genre, providing a dedicated space where performance art can be experienced, celebrated, studied, and preserved while defining the next generation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
21 & over the 21 & over series was held at catch one, a historic nightclub in los angeles, with no cost of entry. Featuring over 21 artists during the month of october 2024including nao bustamante, elliot reed, guillermo gmez- pea, patrice cullors, and roco boliverthe series highlighted diverse intergenerational works across dance, opera, nightlife, and live art. The event drew more than 1,000 attendees, including classes of students from local colleges and universities, including state and local community colleges. It expanded the museums audience and affirmed our role as a vital incubator for contemporary performance and high-quality production supporting historically excluded communities. Long term residency The Performance Art Museum's two-year artist-centered long-term residency initiative is an innovative residency program designed to provide holistic, long-term support for performance artists at critical junctures in their careers. Unlike traditional residencies that focus solely on production, this program prioritizes sustainability, infrastructure, and adaptive institutional support, ensuring artists have the necessary resources to develop their practice beyond…
$310,424 spent$23,972 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $310,424.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $162k to $223k (+37%).
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.
94% of THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Nao Bustamante
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM’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 PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
75% of THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.
Against its field
THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM: 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 THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM?
- THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,900 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANKTON CHARITABLE TRUST ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $327,900 in grants to THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM?
- UNITED PLANKTON CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM 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.
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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 2024–2025), and the filings of 12 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