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The Washington Center for the Performing Arts
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,783 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $978k
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What The Washington Center for the Performing Arts does
Mission
The mission of the Washington Center is to inspire audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community. The Washington center for the performing arts was created from a belief that a regional performing arts center was fundamental to the cultural pursuits of our community and vital to a better quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artistic & community partner program: the center is the official home and box office for our 14 local artistic and community partners such as the olympia symphony orchestra, masterworks choral ensemble, ballet northwest, olympia junior programs, student orchestras of greater olympia, and more. Among the many benefits of this unique collaboration, our artistic and community partners receive scheduling priority of the washington center stage(s). Our artistic partners hold numerous events and performances each year, which account for 49% of all ticket sales at the washington center. Since our inception, the center has provided a professional staff and theater to these local nonprofit arts organizations, as well as others who may rent the venue.
$2,468,528 spent$71,263 earned by the program71% of program spendingThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts presents its own series of national and international touring artists from a broad spectrum of genres and styles. In the last 12 months we have presented world famous artists such as ben folds, aimee mann, gregory alan isakov, lyle lovett , the national broadway tour of dear evan hansen, the dance company body traffic, along with jazz, comedy, family oriented performances, national geographic explorers, and a huge variety of other genres. In addition, we have a long-term collaboration with indigenous performance productions (ipp) to develop new indigenous performances to tour throughout the country and beyond. The collaboration creates world premieres of theater, music, dance and multi-disciplinary performances by native and indigenous artists. This partnership is the first of its kind in the united states and seeks to fulfill a critical need in the field and help to reverse long standing barriers to indigenous performing artists entering the touring circuit.
$841,770 spent$2,375,931 earned by the program24% of program spendingYouth education & outreach: participating in the arts and performing in front of a live audience helps our local youth grow as artists, develop professionalism, and many great attributes and real-world skills. The arts help improve open mindedness, empathy, observation, articulating complex thoughts, focus, reasoning, and self-awareness. Our youth education and outreach program is growing every year and includes student matinees, masterclasses, talk-backs, and other touchpoints and opportunities for engagement appropriate for current season opportunities.
$152,677 spent$146,681 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,462,975.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.4M to $7.4M (+38%).
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 21% · 2018 24% · 2019 18% · 2020 18% · 2021 63% · 2022 37% · 2023 54% · 2024 27% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of The Washington Center for the Performing Arts’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. 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.
Board chair
Tim Coley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $7k → $47k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Washington Center for the Performing Arts’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 Washington Center for the Performing Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 Washington Center for the Performing Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 51% · 2019 44% · 2020 63% · 2021 52% · 2022 83% · 2023 41% — 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
25% of The Washington Center for the Performing Arts's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
89% of The Washington Center for the Performing Arts's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Washington Center for the Performing Arts holds deeper cash reserves 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
Government funding The Washington Center for the Performing Arts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 Washington Center for the Performing Arts
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Washington Center for the Performing Arts: 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 Washington Center for the Performing Arts?
- The Washington Center for the Performing Arts (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,783 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Washington Center for the Performing Arts have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $977,783 in grants to The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Washington Center for the Performing Arts?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST 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 The Washington Center for the Performing Arts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 20 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