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FOUNDATION FOR THE MCKNIGHT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

EIN 81-2608656 STILLWATER, OK

Revenue 2024
$3,427,077
Expenses 2024
$5,652,712

Program services were 76.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
1000
Street
705 W UNIVERSITY AVE

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).

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.

  • ROSS MCKNIGHT

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARL THOMA

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY CLARK

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAWN BARNARD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BLAIRE ATKINSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE HALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILLIE MCKNIGHT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM HESS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAYSE SHRUM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK BLAKEMAN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $288,497
    From this org
    $261,060
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,437
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $231,060
    Bonus
    $30,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,956
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,481
    Filer's total
    $288,497

  • LANELL DAVIS

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $116,205
    From this org
    $98,805
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,400
    Hours/week
    40

  • JESSICA NOVAK

    DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

    Total calculated
    $109,191
    From this org
    $102,572
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,619
    Hours/week
    40

  • SVANO ASCANI

    DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $117,827
    From this org
    $105,805
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,022
    Hours/week
    40

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 — 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
    $3,427,077
    Expenses
    $5,652,712
    Contributions
    $1,520,129
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,628,288
    Expenses
    $4,796,017
    Contributions
    $1,104,737
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,659,364
    Expenses
    $4,595,805
    Contributions
    $2,282,113
    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.

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

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

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 10 September 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.