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PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

EIN 05-0377244 PROVIDENCE, RI

Revenue 2024
$34,833,747
Expenses 2024
$31,581,455

Program services were 81.1% 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
220 WEYBOSSET 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

TO SERVE THE ENTERTAINMENT NEEDS OF THE STATE'S VARIOUS POPULATIONS BY PRESENTING THE WIDEST POSSIBLE VARIETY OF HIGH-QUALITY ARTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS. TO CONNECT THE COMMUNITY TO ENGAGING CREATIVE PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. TO PRESERVE THE HISTORIC INTEGRITY AND BEAUTY OF THE BUILDING. TO MAINTAIN FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.

  • TO PRESERVE THE HISTORIC INTEGRITY AND BEAUTY OF THIS BUILDING; TO SERVE THE ENTERTAINMENT NEEDS OF THE STATE'S VARIOUS POPULATIONS BY PRESENDING THE WIDEST POSSIBLE VARIETY OF HIGH QUALITY ARTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS; TO MAINTAIN FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY; TO CONNECT THE COMMUNITY TO ENGAGING CREATIVE PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.

    Expenses $3,481,060 · Revenue $27,789,382

  • COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS INCLUDE: ARTS SHOWCASE ENABLES APPROXIMATELY 10,000 ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ATTEND PPAC TO EXPERIENCE JOY AND CREATIVITY OF LIVE THEATER. BOOKS TO BROADWAY EXPOSES MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO THE THEATRE BY PROVIDING UNDERWRITIEN TICKETS TO BROADWAY SHOWS COMBINED WITH A CAST MEMBER "MEET & GREET". SEATS FOR SERVICE MEMBERS GIVES MEMBERS OF THE RI NATIONAL GUARD/USO NEW ENGLAND AND THEIR FAMILIES THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE LIVE THEATRE BY PROVIDING UNDERWRITIEN "PREFERRED SEATING" TO PPAC'S BROADWAY PERFORMANCES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WONDERS OF THE WURLITZER IS A FREE CONCERT SERIES. PEOPLE OF ALL AGES COME TO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC PERFORMED BY LOCAL ORGANISTS PLAYED ON PPAC'S ONE-OF-A-KIND 1927 WURLITZER PIPE ORGAN. PPAC'S ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAMS HAVE PROVIDED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS GRAGES 6 TO 8 WHO WISH TO ENROLL IN SUMMBER EDUCATION PROGRAMS. BIG DREAMS BEGIN WITH BROADWAY OFFERS PRIME ORCHESTRA SEATS FOR BROADWAY PERFORMANCES TO BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND TO DISTRIBUTE TO THEIR MENTORS AND CHILDREN. EXPERIENCE PPAC CREATES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY 10TH GRADE STUDENT IN RHODE ISLAND TO SEE A SELECT TOURING BROADWAY PERFORMANCE AT NO COST. SHOW STUDY GUIDES WILL BE PROVIDED TO SCHOOLS PRIOR TO THEIR ATIENDANCE SO THAT THEY CAN ENGAGE IN THE EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL CREATIVE CONCEPTS PRIOR TO ATTENDING. DISNEY MUSICALS IN SCHOOLS CREATES SUSTAINABLE MUSICAL THEATER IN UNDER-RESOURCED SCHOOLS. NEXT STOP BROADWAY TRANSPORTS LOCAL THEATER-LOVING YOUTH AGES 10-17 TO THE "GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY" THROUGH WORKSHOPS, CLASSES AND REHEARSALS.OCEAN STATE STAR AWARDS CELEBRATES THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND DESIGNERS INVOLVED IN HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THATER PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $22,141,001 · Grants $33,925 · Revenue $225,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • JOSEPH W WALSH ESQ

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • MARK T RYAN ESQ

    FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • THOMAS A TANURY

    SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • ELLEN BARNES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • LOWELL W KINCH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • KRISTEN ADAMO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • MICHAEL A BUCCI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • GABRIELLA DIGIACINTO CAPRIO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • WILLIAM J CONLEY JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • DARREN CORRENTE ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • JASON M DAPONTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • NINA PANDE

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 11/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • ALISON EICHLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • THOMAS P FAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • JANET S FOGARTY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • DAVID A FONTAINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • DAVID L FRIED MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • GARY E FURTADO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • CYNTHIA LAUGHLIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • BARBARA S LAVINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • MATTHEW LOPES JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • PAUL A MACDONALD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • ROBIN L MAIN ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • RICK METTERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • RALPH A MOLLIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

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
    $34,833,747
    Expenses
    $31,581,455
    Contributions
    $1,687,043
    Grants paid
    $33,925
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $34,056,359
    Expenses
    $28,439,481
    Contributions
    $1,118,305
    Grants paid
    $61,013
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $23,437,780
    Expenses
    $23,616,405
    Contributions
    $758,449
    Grants paid
    $22,263

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,498,809
    Expenses
    $24,654,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,822,286

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,415,518
    Expenses
    $5,682,068
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,339,939

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,415,753
    Expenses
    $5,503,585
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,339,939

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,767,453
    Expenses
    $25,012,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,620,239

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $22,313,660
    Expenses
    $20,845,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,285,052

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,809,422
    Expenses
    $17,640,295
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,054,223

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

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.