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PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON

EIN 74-6077505 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$7,159,607
Expenses 2024
$6,790,761

Program services were 80.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A60Z
Classification
2000
Street
615 LOUISIANA STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

WE CONNECT AUDIENCES WITH EXCEPTIONAL ARTISTS THROUGH DIVERSE PERFORMANCES AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES. WE IGNITE AND CULTIVATE PASSION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS TO CREATE COMMUNITY, INSPIRE DIALOGUE AND ENRICH OUR WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON CONNECTS AUDIENCES WITH EXCEPTIONAL ARTISTS THROUGH DIVERSE PERFORMANCES AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES. WE IGNITE AND CULTIVATE PASSION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AND TOGETHER WE EXPLORE THE VAST LANDSCAPE OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION TO DISCOVER NEW UNDERSTANDING ABOUT OURSELVES, CREATE COMMUNITY, INSPIRE DIALOGUE, AND ENRICH OUR WORLD.

  • PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON OFFERS CULTURALLY DIVERSE PROGRAMMING RANGING FROM WORLD-RENOWED MUSIC, DANCE, THEATER, SPEAKERS AND A VARIETY OF OF OTHER PERFORMANCE-BASED EVENTS THAT ENGAGE A WIDE RANGE OF AUDIENCE DEMOGRAPHICS. PROGRAMMING IS PARTIALLY UNDERWRITTEN BY FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS, AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL OF MAKING THESE WORLD-CLASS PERFORMANCES AFFORDABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES. OUR 2024-2025 SEASON SHOWCASED 32 DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS IN 63 PERFORMANCES, COMPLEMENTED BY NUMEROUS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS. FROM THE LIVELY KODO DRUMMERS FROM JAPAN TO THE STUNNING BALLET FOLKLORICO DE MEXICO TO FAMILY FAVORITE BLUEY'S BIG PLAY, THE SEASON HAD SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AND REFLECTED THE RICH DIVERSITY AND INTERESTS OF OUR COMMUNITY. A SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT OF THE SEASON WAS PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON'S PARTNERSHIP WITH SOLANGE KNOWLES AND HER COLLECTIVE SAINT HERON WHICH PRESENTED ELDORADO BALLROOM HOUSTON, A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE SERIES CELEBRATING THE CULTURAL LEGACY OF HOUSTON'S THIRD WARD AND ITS HISTORIC ELDORADO BALLROOM. THE SERIES DREW MORE THAN 5,200 ATTENDEES ACROSS FIVE PERFORMANCES FEATURING CLASSICAL, JAZZ AND GOSPEL MUSIC AS WELL AS FILM AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ART IN JONES HALL, ELDORADO BALLROOM AND THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON.

    Expenses $4,971,590 · Revenue $4,305,453

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $487,399 · Revenue $3,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • H William Swanstrom

    BOARD CHAIR/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Vijay D'Cruz

    BOARD VICE CHAIR/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Curt D Karges

    TREASURER/VICE PRESIDENT/D

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tymothi O Tombar

    SECRETARY/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Willie Cw Chiang

    VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Melanie Gray

    VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • G Mark Jodon

    VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Emily T Kuo

    VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Theresa Mallett

    VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Norah G Adams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • S Kris Agarwal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey A Ball

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leah R Bennett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles C Boettcher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian D Bravo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roxann Thomas Chargois

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles D Davidson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Tejuana L Edmond

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Theresa A Einhorn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Mary Fischer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen M Gill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sean Gorman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shawn K Jackson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy Kd King

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joel Lambert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,159,607
    Expenses
    $6,790,761
    Contributions
    $2,355,026
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,355,987
    Expenses
    $5,359,820
    Contributions
    $2,512,265
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,462,674
    Expenses
    $5,799,077
    Contributions
    $2,474,290
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,467,356
    Expenses
    $4,264,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,007,329
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,022,539
    Expenses
    $4,590,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,735,277
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,980,884
    Expenses
    $4,646,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,842,526
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,060,248
    Expenses
    $5,112,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,263,614
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,915,726
    Expenses
    $4,781,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,626,711
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,294,881
    Expenses
    $4,511,595
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,333,843
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,317,488
    Expenses
    $3,947,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,603,581
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,818,067
    Expenses
    $4,307,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,140,080
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,533,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,507,581

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON FOUNDATION

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION · TX

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.