Which named donors and gift amounts appeared in the Kennedy Center’s FY23 annual report and Form 990?
Executive summary
A definitive list of named donors and gift amounts appearing in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) annual report and its IRS Form 990 cannot be compiled from the reporting provided here, because the available sources identify where those documents live but do not include the donor tables or Schedule A/B details themselves [1] [2] [3]. The Kennedy Center has published an FY23 Annual Report PDF on its website and the organization’s Form 990 is publicly filed, but neither the specific donor names and dollar amounts requested are reproduced in the search-result excerpts supplied to this query [1] [2] [3].
1. Where the donor information should appear and what the available sources actually show
The Kennedy Center’s FY23 Annual Report is publicly posted on the organization’s site as an accessible PDF titled “ANNUAL REPORT to our Community Fiscal Year 2023” and is referenced in the search results, which indicates the report exists online [1]. The Kennedy Center’s annual-report landing page is also listed among the search results, confirming the institution publishes an annual report on its site [2]. Separately, nonprofit data aggregators and regulators—GuideStar/Candid and Instrumentl—note that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts files IRS Form 990s and maintains nonprofit reporting that would include tax-year donor disclosures where applicable [3] [4]. However, the snippets provided do not include the donor rosters or the Schedule B or gift tables that would show named contributors and amounts [1] [2] [3].
2. What Form 990s and annual reports normally disclose, and the limits of the supplied excerpts
Form 990 filings and many institutional annual reports typically include revenue breakdowns, major gifts, and sometimes donor honor rolls; the IRS Form 990 itself is the definitive tax filing that researchers use to cross-check charitable revenue and large contributions [5] [3]. Yet the excerpted items here are index-level citations—Instrumentl’s 990 report page and GuideStar’s profile confirm filings exist, and ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer indexes older 990 documents for the Kennedy Center—but none of these provided snippets reproduce the FY23 Schedule B entries or the donor lists from the FY23 annual report PDF used to answer which named donors and dollar amounts appeared [4] [5] [3].
3. Why this matters: donor disclosure, privacy and third‑party databases
Public disclosure of donor names and gift amounts can be incomplete in public-facing materials for multiple reasons: some donor lists in annual reports omit amounts by design, and Schedule B of the Form 990 may be redacted for public disclosure depending on IRS rules and state practice or placed in separate public disclosure files [6] [5]. Charity Navigator’s guidance notes donor privacy concerns and emphasizes that donors can be reluctant to have basic information circulated—a point that helps explain why some organizations publish honor rolls without monetary amounts or why third-party indexes summarize filings rather than republishing full donor tables [6]. The search results here reflect that tension: they point to where the FY23 materials can be found, but do not reveal the donor-level data in the supplied excerpts [2] [1] [4].
4. Recommended next steps to obtain the exact named donors and gift amounts
To produce the exact list requested, obtain and review two documents directly: the Kennedy Center’s FY23 Annual Report PDF (linked in the search results) and the Kennedy Center’s FY23 Form 990 (accessible via GuideStar/Candid, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, or the Kennedy Center’s transparency pages) and then extract the honor roll and Schedule B entries that enumerate donors and amounts [1] [3] [5]. The present reporting confirms those files exist but does not supply the granular donor name/amount data necessary to answer the question fully in this analysis [1] [3].