California · Nonprofit
Valley Performing Arts Council
Valley Performing Arts Council (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being BONNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Valley Performing Arts Council does
Mission
Valley Performing Arts Council vpac was established in march of 1997 as a non-profit educational organization providing local grade school students with exposure to the classical performing arts. Vpac believes in educating children in classical arts - arts that have survived the test of time which provides lasting value to society. Vpac's primary mission is to expose children to the beauty, wisdom, and truth that classical arts impart to us. In this modern world of technology, it seems as though the focus of education has shifted further from a curriculum concerned with building character. The arts have long survived as a way to better the understanding, expression, and future of our race. Learning, studying and mastering different forms of classical arts helps teach our children the value of compassion, integrity, personal strength, and respect for ourselves and others. Great classical art focuses not only on the technical mastery of painting, dancing or playing an instrument, but als
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Fresno ballet theater: in 1997, yukari thiesen founded the fresno ballet theater fbt, formerly named fresno dance theatre. This student ballet company is open to all ballet students and non-ballet students provided there are roles in the central valley. Growing up at the matsuyama ballet school, affiliated with matsuyama ballet, then the largest professional ballet company in tokyo. It provides the students a clear understanding of the goal to be achieved by observing and working with the professionals. Cumulatively, this organization has reached 132,000 school students from 25 school districts throughout this california central valley. Fbt provides opportunities to ballet students to work with the state street ballet of santa barbara and its artistic staff magen philipp and cecily macdougall on a spring ballet production. The fresno ballet theatre and the state street ballet of santa barbara collaborated to draw on dance and artistic forces within the san joaquin valley community for a united presentation, building a stronger foundation for ballet and dance while reaching out to approximately 10,000 grade school students annually.
$133,199 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $133,199.
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 $187k to $78k (−58%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Valley Performing Arts Council’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of Valley Performing Arts Council’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Valley Performing Arts Council's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Valley Performing Arts Council's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Valley Performing Arts Council: 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 Valley Performing Arts Council?
- Valley Performing Arts Council (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being BONNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Valley Performing Arts Council have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26,000 in grants to Valley Performing Arts Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Valley Performing Arts Council?
- BONNER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Valley Performing Arts Council 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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