· Public charity
Cirque Du Soleil Foundation USA I Inc
1.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $93,907 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,186 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEVADA BALLET THEATRE | $62,965 |
| THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Springs Preserve | $5,942 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $130k on the FY2022 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.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NBNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $230k · revenue +44%
- TETHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $57k · revenue +59%
- KFKANPE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- BOBRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -79%
- WFWise Fool New Mexicograduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +47%
- NENEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe
The mission of circadium is to provide students with professional training in contemporary circus, and to prepare them for work in circus and related performing arts fields.
Our mission is to introduce the public to the best works of Spanish and Pan Latino playwrights, both contemporary and classical and to foster an appreciation of the richness of Latin American and Iberian cultures.
Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.
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…
The Educational Theatre Company seeks to unlock the potential of children and adults through immersion in theatre arts.
Trenton Circus Squad taps into wonder and tradition of circus by offering free after-school programs and workshops that improve the lives of participants.
To inspire passion for the circus arts through training, performance, and community engagement. In FY24, we provided 6,000 classes to 25,000+ trainees, produced 24 shows, and provided sustained enrichment activities to dozens of…
To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.
Build a stronger community of creative individuals and businesses. Create an attractive area for people to live visit engage and shop. Spread awareness about Rino in Denver in Colorado and nationally. Provide education about the arts…
To provide support for the usa international ballet competition
Boulder ballet creates engaging dance performances and educational initiatives that enrich human connections through the transformative power of the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Ballet Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kanpe Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wise Fool New Mexico ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS PROJECT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cirque Du Soleil Foundation USA I Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Center for Circus Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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