Wisconsin · Nonprofit
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,822,993 to it, the largest being BAIRD FOUNDATION INC ($1,677,349). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 150
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $11M
What United Performing Arts Fund Inc does
Mission
The mission of the united performing arts fund, inc. As an umbrella fundraising organization is to secure community resources and improve the quality of life through responsible investment in and financial support of the performing arts in southeastern wisconsin. Specifically:1. Raise much needed funds to ensure entertainment excellence2. Promote the performing arts as a regional asset3. Responsibly steward the dollars our donors so generously give us
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The united performing arts fund solicits operating and programmatic funding for its 14 members and 17 affiliate organizations. This funding enables the member groups and affilates to touch more than 1.2 million people annually in in-person performing arts events, educational experiences including over 150,000 children or community outreach programs.
$7,015,161 spentof which $6,182,984 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,015,161.
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 $14M to $13M (−10%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 6 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 51 funders to 82 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.6M.
23 of 150 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.5M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 150 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
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
32% 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 UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 32% · 2023 15% — broadly stable.
“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
65% of UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
95% of UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: 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 UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC?
- UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,822,993 to it, the largest being BAIRD FOUNDATION INC ($1,677,349). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 150 organizations giving $14,822,993 in grants to UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC, 112 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC?
- BAIRD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,677,349 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 150 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing