· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VLA DANCE LLC | $70,562 |
| DANCE IN THE SCHOOLS | $62,778 |
| TRIKE CALLED FUNK LLC | $46,250 |
| RAICESLINDIANA FLORES | $20,529 |
| METAMOVEMENTS LLC TOTAL | $18,529 |
| SARA JULI | $10,323 |
| J MICHAEL WINWARD | $5,968 |
| MOVEMENT ARTS GLOUCESTER MA | $5,011 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Boston Dance Alliance Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 78%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +257% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DIDANCE IN THE SCHOOLS4× · 2022–2025 · $144k
- VDVLA DANCE LLC3× · 2023–2025 · $132k
- DADANCING ARTS ENTERPRISES3× · 2022–2024 · $130k
Funded once
- GRGreater Roxbury Arts & Cultural Ctr Incone grant, 2022 · $324k · 92% of their budget
- TWTONY WILLIAMS DANCE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $77k
- TWTONY WILLIAMS BALLETone grant, 2018 · $75k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Boston Dance Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Dance Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The New Dance Complex Inc: 3% of income from government
- Boston Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jean Appolon Expressions Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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