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Boston Dance Alliance Inc

Boston dance alliance's mission is to increase access to dance, building dance audiences, and fostering the sustainability of dance locally by creating shared resources, forging productive partnerships, and providing programs & services that help dance flourish in greater boston.

$367k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$240k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,529
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,562
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$290k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Boston Dance Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

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

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

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Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$240k13%
FY20249$239k67%
FY20235$99k40%
FY20225$482k100%
FY20202$16k50%
FY20193$65k33%
FY20184$114k75%
FY20172$95kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCrime & Legal$120kYouth Development$46kReligion$37kHousing & Shelter$19kInternational$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Roxbury Arts & Cultural Ctr Inc$323,750192%
Dance in the Schools$144,3764n/a
Vla Dance LLC$132,3343n/a
Dancing Arts Enterprises$129,7373n/a
McKersin Previlus$120,2502n/a
Metamovements LLC$81,5644n/a
Tony Williams Dance Center Inc$76,6711n/a
Tony Williams Ballet$74,8751n/a
Trike Called Funk LLC$46,2501n/a
Raiceslindiana Flores$36,5292n/a
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All grantees of Boston Dance Alliance Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Roxbury Arts & Cultural Ctr Inc$323,750192%
Dance in the Schools$144,3764n/a
Vla Dance LLC$132,3343n/a
Dancing Arts Enterprises$129,7373n/a
McKersin Previlus$120,2502n/a
Metamovements LLC$81,5644n/a
Tony Williams Dance Center Inc$76,6711n/a
Tony Williams Ballet$74,8751n/a
Trike Called Funk LLC$46,2501n/a
Raiceslindiana Flores$36,5292n/a
The New Dance Complex Inc$32,05823%
Boston Dance Theater$31,254217%
Boston Center for the Arts Inc$23,50011%
Sara Juli$17,7282n/a
Elvis Lora$17,1881n/a
J Michael Winward$15,2182n/a
Monkey House Inc$12,7501n/a
Movement Arts Gloucester Ma$11,6272n/a
Integrarte$10,2871n/a
Kieran Jordan Dance LLC$7,3001n/a
Jean Appolon Expressions Inc$5,02614%

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.

Movement Arts Creation Studio IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Movement Arts Creation Studio Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Boston Dance Alliance Inc

How much does Boston Dance Alliance Inc give?
Boston Dance Alliance Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $239,950, out of $367,225 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Boston Dance Alliance Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Crime & Legal (9%), Youth Development (3%).
Who are Boston Dance Alliance Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Roxbury Arts & Cultural Ctr Inc ($324k), Dance in the Schools ($144k), Vla Dance LLC ($132k).
Does Boston Dance Alliance Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Boston Dance Alliance Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Movement Arts Creation Studio Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated.
Where is Boston Dance Alliance Inc based?
Boston Dance Alliance Inc is based in MA.

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 21 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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