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Cirque Du Soleil Foundation USA I Inc

1.

$125k
Granted FY2019
3
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$63k
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 2019.

Public Safety & Disaster$460kArts & Culture$260kPhilanthropy$32kInternational$30kHealth$25kEducation$20kEnvironment$13k
02FY2019 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $93,907, the rows itemized in this filing. The $125,093 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,186 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.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEVADA BALLET THEATRE$62,965
THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION$25,000
Springs Preserve$5,942
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $32k → 14%WISE FOOL NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%BRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 13%THE CIRCUS PROJECT: $10k → 12%LVMPD FOUNDATION: $460k → 13%NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS: $10k → 11%THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NEVADA BALLET THEATRE: $106k → 13%Springs Preserve: $7k → 13%NEVADA BALLET THEATRE: $63k → 13%Springs Preserve: $6k → 13%NEVADA BALLET THEATRE: $60k → 13%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: $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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$130k · 100% · 1 grant
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$329k · 4 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$329k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • NB
    NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $230k · revenue +44%
  • TE
    THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $57k · revenue +59%
  • KF
    KANPE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • BO
    BRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -79%
  • WF
    Wise Fool New Mexicograduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +43%
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
Santa Fe Concert Foundation Dba Performance Santa Fe Foundation

To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe

Arts & Culture
2
Circadium

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.

Education
3
Teatro Circulo Ltd

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre Corp

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.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Educational Theatre Company

The Educational Theatre Company seeks to unlock the potential of children and adults through immersion in theatre arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Trenton Civil Circus Project dba Trenton Circus Squad

Trenton Circus Squad taps into wonder and tradition of circus by offering free after-school programs and workshops that improve the lives of participants.

Youth Development
8
Circus Center

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Nevada Land Trust

To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.

—
10
Rino Art District

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…

Community Improvement
11
Usa Ibc Foundation

To provide support for the usa international ballet competition

Human Services
12
Boulder Ballet

Boulder ballet creates engaging dance performances and educational initiatives that enrich human connections through the transformative power of the arts.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Ballet Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation: $460,000 · Crime & LegalLas Vegas Metropolitan PD FoundationNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $229,535 · Arts & CultureNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INCWise Fool New Mexico: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $56,501 · PhilanthropyKANPE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalBRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationSPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION: $13,026 · EnvironmentTHE CIRCUS PROJECT: $10,000 · Other
Crime & Legal$460,000Arts & Culture$249,535Philanthropy$56,501International$30,000Education$20,000Environment$13,026Other$10,000

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 budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation: $460,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $229,535 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $56,501 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION: $13,026 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWise Fool New Mexico: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CIRCUS PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Cirque Du Soleil Foundation USA I Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cirque Du Soleil Foundation USA I Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Center for Circus Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Cirque Du Soleil Foundation USA I 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 9 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $130k 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 FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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