The Society of the Four Arts is a arts education nonprofit based in Palm Beach, FL that was founded in 1936. As of 2019 they had $10 million in revenue and $86 million in assets.
To encourage and cultivate a taste for music, literature, dance, and other arts. To mount operatic or dramatic presentations, concerts, lectures, exhibits of the visual arts, and other entertainments. To bring into communication with each other all th...
Artistic programming consists of art exhibitions, concerts, films, HD screenings from the Metropolitan Opera and other arts organizations, and lectures. Each year The Society of the Four Arts presents a full season of notable programs in each of its four designated mission areas: music, drama, literature, and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture). Concerts, usually presented on Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons, attract enthusiastic audiences to programs by the world's leading musicians in diverse performances of classical, jazz, bluegrass, and more. Recent art exhibitions in the Society's Esther B. O'Keeffe gallery explored 200 years of American design through The Art of Seating and displayed veterans' portraits painted by President George W. Bush in Portraits of Courage. Art films and memorable Hollywood movies are shown on Friday afternoon and evenings; each season's full schedule of live HD broadcasts is offered on Saturdays and Sundays. Many exhibitions and concerts are accompanied ...
Education (Campus on the Lake) programming consists of field trips, lectures, master classes, seminars, and workshops dedicated to the living arts. These programs and events are presented in the new Four Arts Campus on the Lake Education building. The presentations range widely in subject matter: ongoing classes on classical music, opera, literature, art, watercolor painting, sculpture, cooking, and flower arranging; one-time lectures on a wide variety of subjects. Designed to attract a broad audience, the Campus on the Lake has won wide praise for the variety and depth of its programs. Attendance 10,357 and 264 events.
Because the Town of Palm Beach has no public libraries, the Society's two libraries, the King Library for adults and a separate, superbly equipped children's library, serve, in effect, as the Town's "official" libraries. Both are open to the public at no charge (adults pay a small fee for borrowing privileges); both present a full season's schedule of events: story hours for children, plus celebrations of special events like national fire prevention week when Palm Beach's fire trucks and firefighters visit the children's library, author visits, book signings, poetry readings, lectures, book discussions, and other events for adults. Attendance 84,211 and 305 events.
| Fiscal year ending | Date received by IRS | Form | PDF link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06 | Sep 9, 2020 | 990 | View PDF |
| 2018-06 | May 14, 2019 | 990 | View PDF |
| 2017-06 | Jan 31, 2018 | 990 | View PDF |
| 2016-06 | Apr 18, 2017 | 990 | View PDF |
| 2015-06 | Jan 29, 2016 | 990 | View PDF |
| ...and six more Form 990 PDFs | |||
| Field | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Total grants, contributions, etc. | $7,389,918 |
| Program services | $848,199 |
| Investment income and dividends | $992,479 |
| Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 |
| Royalty revenue | $0 |
| Net rental income | $0 |
| Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $1,499,664 |
| Net income from fundraising events | $0 |
| Net income from gaming activities | $0 |
| Net income from sales of inventory | $23,662 |
| Miscellaneous revenues | $117,395 |
| Total revenues | $10,871,317 |
| Vendor | Services | Amount paid | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holyfield and Thomas LLC | Tax accounting | 2020-09-09 | |
| █████████ | Content management system software | 2020-03-01 | |
| ███████ ███ █████ | Construction | $3,488,930 | 2019-06-01 |
| ████████ █████████ | Executive Search | $140,468 | 2019-06-01 |
| █████████ ██████████ | Furniture | $210,600 | 2019-06-01 |
| ██████ █████████ | Architecture | $134,740 | 2019-06-01 |
| ███████ | Landscaping | $178,749 | 2019-06-01 |
| █████████ ████████ | Software | 2018-04-28 |
| Name | Title | Compensation | Most recent data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Rylands | President and Chief Executive Officer | - | July 13, 2020 |
| Kathy Mardambek | Director of Finance and Administration / Finance Director | $161,746 | July 13, 2020 |
| █████ █████ | Head of Communications | - | July 13, 2020 |
| █████ ███████ | Director of Communications and Development | - | May 19, 2018 |
| ███████ ██████ | Director of Staging and Technical Services | - | July 13, 2020 |
| ███████ ███████ | Director of Advancement | - | July 13, 2020 |
| ██████ ███████ | Head of Special Events | - | July 13, 2020 |
| █████████ ██████ | Head of Education | - | July 13, 2020 |
| █████ ███████ ██████ | Director of Programs | - | July 13, 2020 |
| ███ ████████ | Director of Facilities Management | - | July 13, 2020 |
| ...and 13 more key personnel | |||