Richard Grenell, interim director of the Kennedy Center, is developing a “common sense” plan to reverse the center’s financial situation and make it “prosper again” because it caught $72 million in debt due to past leadership decisions.
“The Kennedy Center is the leading arts in the United States,” Glennell told Fox News Digital Numbers. “It deserves full support from the public and a solid balance sheet.”
Sources familiar with the current financial situation of the Kennedy Center told Fox News Digital that it is a “loss budget.”
But Grenell introduced new chief financial officer Donna Arduin, whose mission is to improve what she calls a “terrible situation.”
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Richard Grenell, interim director of the Kennedy Center, is developing a “common sense” plan to reverse the center’s financial situation and make it “prosper again” because it caught $72 million in debt due to past leadership decisions. (Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images)
“The Kennedy Center’s previous business plan was to leave the center, and that’s what it does,” Arduin told Fox News Digital. “Previous leaders had no choice but to pay employees’ salaries, which would have been allocated to the debt reserves.”
“The serious mismanagement situation shocked us to discover a terrible situation,” Arduin told Fox News Digital.
In fiscal year 2025, the Kennedy Center’s budget is $234 million. Similarly, in fiscal 25, the Kennedy Center’s operating deficit was $105.2 million, creating a bottom-line deficit of $7.2 million.
Sources familiar with these numbers told Fox News that the gap is full of Kennedy Center fundraising funds – $91 million a year in fundraising, and $7 million of donations.
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Sources familiar with the leadership team plan told Fox News Digital that the program will focus on getting rid of debt, improving ticket sales and fundraising, and developing the center’s endowment funds.
Grenell told Sean Hannity earlier this month that the Kennedy Center’s “Welcome to everyone is welcome”. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
A source explained that the team will use the venue for profitable business activities instead of traditional performances and performances and will start offering alternative programs.
“There are a lot of opportunities, and we are pursuing all opportunities,” the source said.
The Kennedy Center has two branches – the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera. The new leadership team is currently developing business plans with its branches to ensure the Kennedy Center has greater endowment and “greater sustainability.”
Official donations totaled just $163 million, and new leaders told Fox News that the figures were “not enough to fit the size of the agency.”
Under the last leadership team, the Kennedy Center established “The The Reach,” an intimate theater at the Kennedy Center hosts concerts, comedy shows and poetry readings. It also has a restaurant.
But sources familiar with finance told Fox News that former leaders took on a large portion of their debt to build the site, bringing the center nearly $200 million.
“There is no profitability plan,” the source explained.
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President Trump fired the theater’s board in January and announced that he was elected as chairman of his newly selected board. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“The major institutions of American art deserve better,” Alduin said. “The new team has written a responsible budget that will make us flourish again.”
“We are using common sense,” she added.
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Grenell told Sean Hannity earlier this month that the Kennedy Center’s “Welcome to everyone is welcome”.
“Look, the reality is, the Kennedy Center is open to everyone,” Grinnell told Hannity. “We just want an art center that celebrates art – we want art with common sense.”
