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American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet Inc

To solicit funds to support the paris opera and promote french-american artistic exchange.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$16k
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 2023.

Arts & Culture$159k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $26,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,190,394 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,164,394 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.
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$16,000
YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX 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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JACOBS PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $10k → 12%BOSTON BALLET INC: $10k → 16%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL: $13k → 10%YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $10k → 17%MIAMI CITY BALLET: $8k → 15%PACIFIC NORTH WEST BALLET: $10k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL: $10k → 10%YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX: $5k → 17%YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX: $5k → 17%THE FIELDPONTUS LIDBERG FILM PROJECT: $10k → 17%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $5k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $16k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $10k → 17%ALBERTINE BOOKS FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 17%ALBERTINE BOOKS FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 17%ALBERTINE BOOKS FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.8M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.8M · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSISTANCE TO THE PARIS OPERA & BALLET AND ITS AFFILIATES (SUCH AS THE PARIS OPERA BALLET SCHOOL)

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 4 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$107k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
    3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue -43%
  • AB
    ALBERTINE BOOKS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue -75%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BOSTON BALLET INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +88%
  • JP
    JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%
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
Ballet Elite
Arts & Culture
2
Ballet Folklorico De Barajas
Arts & Culture
3
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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6
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
7
Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre

To preserve, promote, and present the art of ballet and dance through performances, education, and community outreach, making high-quality cultural experiences accessible to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
8
The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…

Arts & Culture
9
Menlowe Ballet

Menlowe ballet performs works that impact audiences through clean, fresh, and innovative choreography ranging from cultural to contemporary works. it offers a professional performing opportunity to elite students from the award winning,…

Arts & Culture
10
City Center Ballet Inc

City Center Ballet is dedicated to realizing the full potential of ballet dancers through outstanding preparation in classical ballet and exceptional performance opportunities with professional dancers. Within the company and the…

Arts & Culture
11
Florida Classical Ballet Inc

Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18

Arts & Culture
12
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School of American Ballet Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Performance Zone 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

10 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBERTINE BOOKS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALBERTINE BOOKS FOUNDATION INCNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INCBOSTON BALLET INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INCJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATIONMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $30,910 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHEST…THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
Arts & Culture$118,500Other$40,910

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $30,910 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetALBERTINE BOOKS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNY11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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Find your warmest path to American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet 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 10 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $1.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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