Where can I download the Kennedy Center’s FY23 Form 990 and Schedule B to see donor names and amounts?
Executive summary
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ FY2023 Form 990 can be downloaded from nonprofit data aggregators that host IRS filings — notably ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and commercial viewers such as CauseIQ — both of which list and provide PDFs of the organization’s 2023 return [1] [2]. Public sources in the reporting summarize where IRS Form 990s are posted and how to retrieve them, but the assembled reporting does not conclusively state whether an unredacted Schedule B (the donor-detail schedule) is available for public download for this specific filing, so the presence of donor names and amounts in any posted Schedule B cannot be asserted from these sources alone [3] [4].
1. Where to get the FY23 Form 990 — ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer
ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer provides organization pages for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and hosts full IRS Form 990 filings that can be downloaded as PDFs; the project’s “Full Filing” page specifically lists and links to the Center’s returns and is the primary freely accessible place cited in the reporting to obtain the 2019–2019-era digitized filings and, by extension, later returns when available on that platform [1] [5] [3].
2. Alternate download route — CauseIQ and other commercial viewers
CauseIQ is cited as hosting a 2023 Form 990 for the Kennedy Center and provides a downloadable PDF of the return (noting its viewer shows only the first pages online and prompts users to download the file to see all pages), making it a practical alternate source for the FY23 return if ProPublica does not surface that specific PDF [2] [6] [7].
3. GuideStar and Instrumentl — registration and paywall notes
GuideStar (now Candid) maintains a profile for the Kennedy Center and indicates users must sign in or create an account to view recent Forms 990, including 2023; this highlights that some widely used nonprofit databases require free registration before permitting download of full filings [8]. Instrumentl likewise aggregates 990 data and references the Kennedy Center’s filings and grant figures, indicating multiple aggregator services host the return data [9].
4. What about Schedule B: donor names and amounts?
Form 990 instructions and common practice are documented in the IRS Form 990 instructions (which govern the content of returns) and in aggregator descriptions, but the reporting at hand does not provide a direct copy or confirmation that the Kennedy Center’s FY23 Schedule B with donor names and amounts is publicly posted and intact; the IRS instructions describe how 990s are prepared but the available sources here do not say whether this entity’s Schedule B is published unredacted in any of the linked repositories [4] [3]. Because the retrieved source material does not explicitly confirm Schedule B content for FY23, it is not possible from these documents alone to assert that donor names and gift amounts are present in any publicly available Schedule B for the Kennedy Center.
5. Practical next steps for researchers seeking donor detail
To pursue donor names and amounts formally, download the FY23 Form 990 PDFs from ProPublica’s organization page or CauseIQ (start with ProPublica’s “Full Filing” link and the CauseIQ 2023 PDF link cited in the reporting), then inspect the filing for a Schedule B attachment; if a Schedule B is absent or redacted, consider registering with GuideStar/Candid or contacting the Kennedy Center’s finance or development office to request the document or an explanation — the reporting documents the availability of filings in third‑party repositories but does not supply an unambiguous Schedule B for FY23 [1] [2] [8].
6. Caveats, transparency and why this matters
Public 990s are the principal transparency mechanism for large nonprofits and aggregator projects like ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and CauseIQ are the documented routes to retrieve them, yet the reporting here makes clear only that those platforms host Form 990s and PDFs — it does not confirm that donor-identifying Schedule B data for the Kennedy Center’s FY23 filing is publicly accessible without restriction, meaning further direct download and inspection or outreach will be necessary to resolve whether donor names and amounts are viewable for that fiscal year [3] [1] [2] [4].