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American Dance Asylum Inc

To promote contemporary dance through the arts

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$498kEducation$142kYouth Development$35k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $125,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $186,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,939 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$776k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOBART & SMITH COLLEGES$30,000
TORN SPACE THEATER$20,000
BARKHA DANCE COMPANY$15,550
FLAMENCO VIVO - SPANISH DANCE ARTS COMPANY INC$10,000
DANSPACE PROJECT INC$10,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY$10,000
TOPAZ ARTS INC$10,000
TEATRO EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA INC$10,000
SUKANYA BURMAN DANCE INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BARKHA DANCE COMPANY: $16k → 6%TEATRO EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA INC: $10k → 7%KAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC: $7k → 9%HOBART & SMITH COLLEGES: $30k → 10%CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $8k → 11%CHAMBER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL: $9k → 11%LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART: $13k → 13%TOPAZ ARTS INC: $10k → 13%TORN SPACE THEATER: $20k → 13%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY: $20k → 14%THE CHERRY ARTS INC: $13k → 16%DANSPACE PROJECT INC: $7k → 17%GARDNERS PICK OF THE CROP INC: $10k → 18%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $13k → 19%10 HAIRY LEGS: $7k → 8%TEATRO EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA INC: $10k → 7%KAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC: $7k → 9%HOBART & SMITH COLLEGES: $20k → 10%OPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $8k → 11%LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART: $10k → 13%TOPAZ ARTS INC: $10k → 13%TORN SPACE THEATER: $12k → 13%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY: $13k → 14%DANSPACE PROJECT INC: $7k → 17%GARDNERS PICK OF THE CROP INC: $7k → 18%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%TEATRO EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA: $7k → 7%HOBART & SMITH COLLEGES: $14k → 10%OPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $7k → 11%LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART: $10k → 13%TOPAZ ARTS INC: $10k → 13%TORN SPACE THEATER: $10k → 13%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY: $13k → 14%THE NEW UTILITY INC: $12k → 17%SUKANYA BURMAN DANCE INC: $10k → 18%HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $10k → 10%TORN SPACE THEATER: $8k → 13%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY: $10k → 14%DANSPACE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%DANSPACE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%SPANISH DANCE ARTS COMPANY INC: $20k → 17%FLAMENCO VIVO - SPANISH DANCE ARTS COMPANY INC: $15k → 17%SPANISH DANCE ARTS COMPANY INC: $13k → 17%FLAMENCO VIVO - SPANISH DANCE ARTS COMPANY INC: $10k → 17%FLAMENCO VIVO - SPANISH DANCE ARTS COMPANY INC: $10k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS: $13k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS: $9k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS: $7k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$601k · 13 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$601k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+107%

Still filing today

92%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
    5× · 2018–2025 · $81k · revenue +59%
  • SD
    SPANISH DANCE ARTS CO INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $74k · revenue +32%
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    6× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Cherry Arts Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +135%
  • NU
    NEW UTILITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +107%
  • CM
    CHAMBER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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2
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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3
Site-Specicific Dances Inc

Dance and music performances held in specific sites, often of historic significance, often free and open to the public

Arts & Culture
4
Tickle the Sleeping Giant Inc

To create contemporary dance works

Arts & Culture
5
New Dance Alliance Inc

New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…

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6
Arts Letters and Numbers
Arts & Culture
7
Threshold Dance Projects Inc

To nurture a personal commitment to dance as a life-long process of discovery through live performance of original choreography, interactive educational residencies, outreach programs, and digital media, and to create through the…

Arts & Culture
8
United Artist Collaborative
Arts & Culture
9
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
10
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
11
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Ballet Folklorico De Barajas
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spanish Dance Arts Co Inc; the most unlike its peers is Barkha Dance Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Torn Space Theater Inc: $62,500 · Arts & CultureTorn Space Theater IncTEATRO EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureTEATRO EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA INCDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureDANSPACE PROJECT INCTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $39,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART …FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $28,390 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INCGARDNERS PICK OF THE CROP INC: $16,518 · Arts & CultureGARDNERS PICK OF THE CROP INCBARKHA DANCE COMPANY INC: $15,550 · Arts & CultureKAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cherry Arts Inc: $12,500 · Arts & CultureNEW UTILITY INC: $11,583 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $80,500 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGESThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $68,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State Un…TOPAZ ARTS INC: $56,000 · EducationTOPAZ ARTS INCALFRED UNIVERSITY: $36,000 · EducationALFRED UNIVERSITYSPANISH DANCE ARTS CO INC: $74,300 · OtherSPANISH DANCE A…CHAMBER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,200 · OtherCHAMBER MUSIC I…10 HAIRY LEGS: $6,500 · Other10 HAIRY LEGSOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $34,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$309,541Education$240,500Other$90,000Youth Development$34,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $80,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPANISH DANCE ARTS CO INC: $74,300 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $68,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTorn Space Theater Inc: $62,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTOPAZ ARTS INC: $56,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetTEATRO EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA INC: $46,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $46,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $39,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetALFRED UNIVERSITY: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $34,500 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $28,390 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Cherry Arts Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNEW UTILITY INC: $11,583 over 1y, 14% of budgetSUKANYA BURMAN DANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget10 HAIRY LEGS: $6,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New England Foundatio…Dance Service New Yor…The Harkness Foundati…The Fan Fox and Lesli…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…The Howard Gilman Fou…Mid Atlantic Arts IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Dance Service New York City Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Dance Asylum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Dance Asylum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to American Dance Asylum Inc?

    Find your warmest path to American Dance Asylum Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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