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FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

EIN 77-0129605 SN LUIS OBISP, CA

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Revenue 2024
$966,800
Expenses 2024
$1,159,316

Program services were 76.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A610
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1137

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

TO PROVIDE AND PROMOTE AN EXTRAORDINARY AND ACCESSIBLE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THAT ELEVATES THE ARTS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE AND PROMOTE AN EXTRAORDINARY AND ACCESSIBLE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THAT ELEVATES THE ARTS IN OUR COMMUNITY. TOGETHER FOUNDATION MEMBERS, WITH OUR PARTNERS, THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO AND CAL POLY, PROVIDE MORE THAN HALF OF THE CENTER'S $3.1 MILLION BUDGET. THESE CONTRIBUTIONS KEEP THE HALL ACCESSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE AND:1) BRING 9,000 CHILDREN TO SCHOOL ADMISSION-FREE SCHOOL MATINEES;2) PROVIDE LOCAL ARTS GROUPS WITH A 75% DISCOUNT ON CENTER RENTAL RATES;3) GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 6,000 YOUNG ARTISTS WHO HAD A CHANCE TO PERFORM ON A WORLD-CLASS STAGE; AND4) KEEP THE CENTER LIKE-NEW AND STATE-OF-THE-ART

  • CENTER OPERATIONS - AMOUNTS PAID ON BEHALF OF SAN LUIS OBISPO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOR PROGRAM EXPENSES, CENTER OPERATION EXPENSES, INTEREST EXPENSE, FURNISHINGS AND EQUIPMENT PURCHASES.

    Expenses $700,554 · Grants $412,094

  • ARTS SEASON - AMOUNTS PAID TO THE CAL POLY ARTS PROGRAM TO SPONSOR THEIR PERFORMING ARTS SEASON WHICH PROVIDES A BROAD PROGRAM OF HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL TOURING PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, WHILE ALSO ASSISTING WITH EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS THROUGH VARIOUS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES AND OFF-CAMPUS SCHOOL OUTREACH EVENTS.

    Expenses $100,000

  • SCHOOL MATINEE - AMOUNTS TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL MATINEE PROGRAM WHICH GIVES THOUSANDS OF LOCAL CHILDREN FROM ALL LOCAL PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND HOME SCHOOLS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND EDUCATIONAL, LIVE ARTS PERFORMANCES AT THE PAC EVERY SCHOOL YEAR.

    Expenses $90,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Tom Strait

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Morgen Houlis

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stacy Sullivan

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chase Martin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brittany Couch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashley Wilken

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lauren Butler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cindy Villa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Skylar Stuck

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Claude Swain

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristin Hoover

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $177,993
    From this org
    $161,993
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,000
    Hours/week
    52

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,993
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $177,993

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $966,800
    Expenses
    $1,159,316
    Contributions
    $729,346
    Grants paid
    $412,094
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $699,376
    Expenses
    $1,590,103
    Contributions
    $460,811
    Grants paid
    $783,248
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,781,544
    Expenses
    $1,651,721
    Contributions
    $1,527,956
    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
    $900,272
    Expenses
    $1,148,185
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,046,022

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,799,125
    Expenses
    $976,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,604,819

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $867,650
    Expenses
    $1,054,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,826,639

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,144,909
    Expenses
    $985,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,828,758

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,281,848
    Expenses
    $884,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,449,562

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $594,314
    Expenses
    $793,290
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,729,125

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,089,083
    Expenses
    $835,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,536,925

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,139,222
    Expenses
    $932,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,407,629

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

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Grants received

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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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.