How much does Danceusa give?

Danceusa reported 10 itemized grants totaling $272,800, out of $644,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Danceusa fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Youth Development (4%), Education (0%).

Who are Danceusa's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Destiny Arts Center ($89k), Contra-Tiempo ($89k), Words Beats Life Inc ($87k).

Does Danceusa fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Danceusa?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Danceusa

Dance/usa is the national service organization for the dance ecosystem.

$644k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Itemized grants FY2025: 2
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $273k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $24,800
Largest grant, FY2025: $49,600
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 22; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Danceusa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$273k	90%
FY2024	2	$15k	100%
FY2023	11	$93k	45%
FY2022	16	$278k	81%
FY2021	9	$11k	89%
FY2020	14	$107k	14%
FY2019	21	$442k	76%
FY2018	22	$443k	9%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.0MYouth Development$88kEducation$200

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Destiny Arts Center	$89,325	4	2%
Contra-Tiempo	$89,325	4	8%
Words Beats Life Inc	$86,995	4	n/a
Dancing Grounds	$74,913	3	4%
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company	$63,350	3	2%
Ananya Dance Theatre	$58,900	4	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$58,650	2	0%
Viver Brasil Dance Company	$58,450	3	7%
Kyle Abrahamabraham in Motion Inc	$55,850	2	2%
Fiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company	$55,850	2	3%

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All grantees of Danceusa by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Destiny Arts Center	$89,325	4	2%
Contra-Tiempo	$89,325	4	8%
Words Beats Life Inc	$86,995	4	n/a
Dancing Grounds	$74,913	3	4%
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company	$63,350	3	2%
Ananya Dance Theatre	$58,900	4	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$58,650	2	0%
Viver Brasil Dance Company	$58,450	3	7%
Kyle Abrahamabraham in Motion Inc	$55,850	2	2%
Fiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company	$55,850	2	3%
Heritage Works	$55,850	2	7%
Dance Service New York City Inc	$55,850	2	2%
Chicago Human Rhythm Project	$55,850	2	4%
Fresh Meat Productions	$55,850	2	6%
Hook Arts Media Inc	$55,850	2	5%
Alabama Dance Council	$55,850	2	n/a
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Inc	$55,850	2	2%
Tu Dance	$55,850	2	4%
U B W Inc A/K/A Urban Bush Women Inc	$55,850	2	2%
New Dance Theatre Inc	$50,780	2	2%
Dancers Group	$49,600	1	n/a
Allison Orr Dance Inc	$38,100	2	4%
Tau Dance Theater	$34,967	2	27%
Christopher K Morgan & Artists LLC	$33,920	2	n/a
Dances for a Variable Population Inc	$33,700	2	7%
The Artist Collective	$33,475	2	15%
Diamano Coura West African Dance Co	$33,475	2	3%
Khmer Arts Academy	$33,475	2	n/a
Kankouran West African Dance Company	$33,475	2	17%
Intersection for the Arts	$33,475	2	0%
Harge Dance Stories	$33,475	2	n/a
Dance Iquail Inc	$33,467	2	7%
Eyakkam Dance Company	$33,467	2	59%
Nashville Ballet	$33,000	2	0%
Kinding Sindaw Heritage Foundation Inc	$32,767	2	20%
Yellow Peril LLC - Ach	$31,367	2	n/a
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc	$25,820	1	2%
C4 Atlanta Inc	$25,820	1	9%
Full Circle Productions Inc	$24,800	1	n/a
Producer Hub Inc	$24,800	1	n/a
Pioneer Winter Collective Inc	$24,800	1	3%
Tamara Ladonna Moving Spirits Inc	$24,800	1	n/a
Culture Mill Inc	$24,800	1	19%
Nava Dance Theatre	$24,800	1	n/a
Indigenous Enterprise Foundation	$24,800	1	n/a
The Trustees of Grinnell College	$24,800	1	0%
Cabd Inc	$22,000	1	2%
Sacramento Ballet Association	$20,000	1	1%
Nevada Ballet Theatre Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Orlando Ballet Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The International Association of Blacks in Dance	$18,000	3	1%
Ballet Oklahoma Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Charlotte Ballet	$13,000	1	0%
Ballet Memphis Corporation	$12,000	1	0%
Grand Rapids Ballet	$12,000	1	0%
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Kansas City Ballet Association	$12,000	1	0%
One East Palo Alto	$9,334	1	1%
Julie Beth Johnson	$9,334	1	n/a
Professional Flair Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Tony Duncan Productions	$7,655	1	n/a
NAKA Dance Theater	$7,655	1	n/a
Ballethnic Dance Company	$7,500	1	1%
Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center Inc	$7,500	1	5%
Cashion Cultural Legacy	$7,500	1	1%
National Institute of Flamenco	$7,500	1	0%
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center	$7,500	1	1%
Jazzantiqua Inc	$7,500	1	9%
Temate Institute for Black Dance and Culture LLC	$7,500	1	12%
Cave Organization Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Several Dancers Core Subidiary of 74-2054315	$2,500	1	0%
World Arts West	$2,500	1	0%
AXIS Dance Company	$2,500	1	0%
Alternate RootsInc	$100	1	0%
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation	$100	1	0%
Joyce Theater Foundation Inc	$100	1	0%
Duke University	$100	1	0%
Dance Works Inc	$100	1	0%

Danceusa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 63.

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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.

New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA49.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · National Performance Network Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The International Association of Blacks in Dance · The Ford Foundation · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Mertz Gilmore 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.

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About Danceusa

How much does Danceusa give?: Danceusa reported 10 itemized grants totaling $272,800, out of $644,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Danceusa fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Youth Development (4%), Education (0%).
Who are Danceusa's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Destiny Arts Center ($89k), Contra-Tiempo ($89k), Words Beats Life Inc ($87k).
Does Danceusa fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Danceusa?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
Where is Danceusa based?: Danceusa is based in DC.