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American Dance Movement

American Dance Movement (ADM) builds healthy communities through dance by expanding access to dance and movement, educating about its benefits, and inspiring generations of dance enthusiasts.

$80k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$355kHealth$93kYouth Development$55kEducation$25kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$209k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCENSION 33$10,000
FREE 2 BE ME$10,000
CONGA KIDS$10,000
DANCING CLASSROOMS$10,000
THE MIRACLE PROJECT$10,000
DANCING DREAMS$10,000
DEA YOUTH DANCE PROGRAM$10,000
EVERYBODY DANCE LA$5,000
DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WILMINGTON BALLET ACADEMY OF THE DANCE: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE: $8k → 10%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%HILL DANCE ACADEMY: $10k → 11%THE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION: $8k → 22%THE WOODEN FLOOR: $10k → 10%BUENA VISTA HORACE MANN: $8k → 10%THE PGK PROJECT INC: $5k → 11%RED HOT BALLROOM INC: $8k → 11%FRIENDS OF OLYMPIA STATION: $5k → 13%DIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE: $8k → 14%DANCING DREAMS: $15k → 13%DANCING CLASSROOMS: $10k → 17%TARRANT COUNTY YOUTH COLLABORATION INC: $15k → 11%CHOREGUS PRODUCTION: $8k → 15%BALLET SPARTANBURG: $10k → 15%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 14%ASCENSION 33: $10k → 11%HANCOCK CENTER FOR DANCEMOVEMENT THERAPY INC: $10k → 10%THE SPOT JD: $10k → 9%THE ANDREA RIZZO FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%SIMPLY DESTINEE: $10k → 8%FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO: $8k → 14%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $10k → 23%ROXANNES SCHOOL OF DANCE: $10k → 17%THE MUSIC CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%DANCING DREAMS: $10k → 13%DANCING CLASSROOMS: $10k → 17%DEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%SIMPLY DESTINEE: $8k → 8%USC GLORYA KAUFMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE: $15k → 14%DANCING DREAMS: $10k → 13%DANCING CLASSROOMS INC: $10k → 17%DEA YOUTH DANCE PROGRAM: $10k → 14%KAUFFMAN CONNECTIONS: $10k → 14%DEA YOUTH PROGRAM: $10k → 14%SAN PEDRO CITY BALLET: $8k → 14%DANCE PROJECT OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS: $15k → 17%LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL: $10k → 14%EVERYBODY DANCE NOW: $8k → 17%THE GABRIELLA FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%FREE 2 BE ME DANCE: $8k → 14%EVERYBODY DANCE (GABRIELLA FOUNDATION): $10k → 14%FREE 2 BE ME: $10k → 14%FREE 2 BE ME DANCE: $10k → 14%FREE 2 BE ME: $10k → 14%THE MIRACLE PROJECT: $10k → 14%CONGA KIDS: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
DE
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
TX
FL
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 7 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
34

Total granted

$213k
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • TD
    The DEA Educational Foundation
    4× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +22%
  • F2
    FREE 2 BE ME DANCE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $38k · revenue +139% · 36% of their budget
  • DD
    DANCING DREAMS
    3× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AR
    ANDREA RIZZO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -10%
  • DP
    DANCE PROJECT OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • UG
    USC GLORYA KAUFMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre

Dance Education and Performance

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2
Ballet Elite
Arts & Culture
3
The Ballet Chicago Company

Ballet Chicago is a professional track school of ballet that creates exceptional dancers. It makes classical ballet training accessible to all. Its founders Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair carry on George Balanchines legacy by providing…

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4
Pony Box Dance Theater

Pony Box Dance Theatre is a 21st century digital dream of Homeric athleticism with Olympian execution. An artful, moving exploration of men in dance, Pony Box Dance Theater aspires to bring the joy and beauty of dance to all people.Our…

Arts & Culture
5
Dancers Workshop

Our mission is to enrich lives by offering excellence and diversity in dance experiences through education, performance, and outreach for students and audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
6
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center

To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.

Arts & Culture
7
Dance Education 4All Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc

Berkeley Ballet Theater offers the highest quality dance training from beginning to professional levels, supports a preprofessional youth company, introduces ballet to young audiences through an outreach program, is committed to access,…

Arts & Culture
9
Indian Dance Training Center

Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…

Arts & Culture
10
Chicago Dance Institute

Advance art education in Chicago schools

Arts & Culture
11
Lets Dance Activities
Human Services
12
Moveius Contemporary Ballet Inc dba Dance Loft on 14

Guided by the belief in dance as a powerful means for cultural and social transformation, Moveius Contemporary Ballet's mission is to catalyze art and community vibrancy in Washington, DC and expand access to the performing arts to a full…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dancing Classrooms Inc; the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles International Dance Festival. 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

43 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. 43 of the 46 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANCING DREAMS: $35,000 · Arts & CultureDANCING DREAMSDancing Classrooms Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDancing Classrooms IncDANCE PROJECT OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE PROJECT OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS INCJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWILMINGTON BALLET ACADEMY OF THE DANCE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCONGA KIDS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureProject Miracle: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreThe DEA Educational Foundation: $45,000 · HealthThe DEA Educational Fo…FREE 2 BE ME DANCE: $37,500 · HealthFREE 2 BE ME DANCEANDREA RIZZO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthANDREA RIZZO FOUNDATIO…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF…CREATIVE NETWERK: $17,500 · OtherCREATIVE NETWERKUSC GLORYA KAUFMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE: $15,000 · OtherUSC GLORYA KAUFMAN SC…LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL: $10,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES INTERNATI…THE SPOT JD: $10,000 · OtherTHE SPOT JDROXANNES SCHOOL OF DANCE: $10,000 · OtherROXANNES SCHOOL OF DA…THE FAMILY PLACE: $9,750 · OtherTHE FAMILY PLACETHE PARENTS & TEACHERS OF BUENA VISTA HORACE MANN: $7,500 · OtherTHE PARENTS & TEACHER…COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC: $7,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CE…RED HOT BALLROOM INC: $7,500 · OtherRED HOT BALLROOM INCTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION: $7,500 · OtherTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR D…The PGK Project Inc: $5,000 · OtherEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $30,000 · EducationEVERYBODY D…ASCENSION 33 INC: $10,000 · EducationASCENSION 3…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationDEBBIE ALLE…SIMPLY DESTINEE: $17,750 · Youth DevelopmentTarrant County Youth Collaboration Inc dba Dancing Classrooms North Texas: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentKeshet Dance Company: $5,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$245,000Health$112,500Other$107,250Education$55,000Youth Development$37,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe DEA Educational Foundation: $45,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFREE 2 BE ME DANCE: $37,500 over 4y, 36% of budgetDANCING DREAMS: $35,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDancing Classrooms Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetANDREA RIZZO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSIMPLY DESTINEE: $17,750 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetCREATIVE NETWERK: $17,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDANCE PROJECT OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILMINGTON BALLET ACADEMY OF THE DANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGA KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASCENSION 33 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Miracle: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE: $9,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAN PEDRO CITY BALLET: $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PARENTS & TEACHERS OF BUENA VISTA HORACE MANN: $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED HOT BALLROOM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeshet Dance Company: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF OLYMPIA STATION INC DBA TANDY BEAL & COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNOTES IN MOTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBALLET MEMPHIS CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe PGK Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…New England Foundatio…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
The Ahmanson FoundationCA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good

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 Movement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Dance Movement. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Wilmington Ballet Academy of the Dance Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Movement?

Find your warmest path to American Dance Movement 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 46 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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