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Danceusa

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

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.0MYouth Development$88kEducation$200
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $15,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $117,162 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,162 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.

$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO$7,500
CAVE ORGANIZATION INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TU DANCE: $34k → 14%DANCE IQUAIL INC - ACH: $24k → 22%DIAMANO COURA WEST AFRICAN DANCE CO: $26k → 9%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $26k → 10%VIVER BRASIL DANCE CO: $34k → 14%CAMILLE A BROWN DANCERS: $22k → 13%FRACTURED ATLAS: $34k → 17%BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: $26k → 20%ALLISON ORR DANCE: $23k → 10%WORDS BEATS LIFE INC: $32k → 14%C4 ATLANTA INC: $26k → 14%NEW DANCE THEATRE: $31k → 12%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $34k → 14%CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT: $34k → 14%DANCING GROUNDS: $32k → 23%EYAKKAM DANCE COMPANY - ACH: $24k → 15%TU DANCE: $22k → 14%FRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS: $34k → 10%VIVER BRASIL DANCE COMPANY: $22k → 14%KINDING SINDAW MELAYU HERITAGE INC: $24k → 13%YELLOW PERIL LLC - ACH: $24k → 20%HERITAGE WORKS: $34k → 21%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $22k → 14%CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT: $22k → 14%DANCING GROUNDS - ACH: $24k → 23%ANANYA DANCE THEATRE: $26k → 11%FRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS: $22k → 10%ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $26k → 14%DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC: $26k → 17%DANCE THEATRE ETCETERA: $34k → 20%HOLLY BASS 360: $26k → 14%HERITAGE WORKS: $22k → 21%DESTINY ARTS CENTER: $34k → 10%DANCE THEATRE ETCETERA INC: $22k → 20%HARGE DANCE STORIES: $26k → 21%DESTINY ARTS CENTER: $26k → 10%DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY: $34k → 17%URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $34k → 20%KANKOURAN: $26k → 14%DESTINY ARTS CENTER: $22k → 10%LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO: $34k → 17%URBAN BUSH WOMEN: $22k → 20%CONTRA-TIEMPO INC: $34k → 14%DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC: $22k → 17%CHRISTOPHER K MORGAN & ARTISTS LLC: $26k → 14%CONTRA-TIEMPO INC: $26k → 14%FIJI THEATRER COMPANY: $34k → 17%KHMER ARTS ACADEMY: $26k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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PA
CA
CO
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MD
AZ
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NC
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DC
HI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 35 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
32

Total granted

$1.7M
$338k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DA
    Destiny Arts Center
    4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +114%
  • C
    CONTRA-TIEMPO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +151%
  • DG
    DANCING GROUNDS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $34k · revenue +71%
  • CA
    C4 ATLANTA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
Ballet Folklorico De Barajas
Arts & Culture
3
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center

To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.

Arts & Culture
4
Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre

Dance Education and Performance

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5
The Ballet Chicago Company

Ballet Chicago is a professional track school of ballet that creates exceptional dancers. It makes classical ballet training accessible to all. Its founders Daniel Duell and Patricia Blair carry on George Balanchines legacy by providing…

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6
Dancers Workshop

Our mission is to enrich lives by offering excellence and diversity in dance experiences through education, performance, and outreach for students and audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
7
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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8
Menlowe Ballet

Menlowe ballet performs works that impact audiences through clean, fresh, and innovative choreography ranging from cultural to contemporary works. it offers a professional performing opportunity to elite students from the award winning,…

Arts & Culture
9
Oakland Ballet Company

Oakland Ballet Company's mission is to inspire the community by keeping the tradition of ballet exciting, vibrant and accessible.

Arts & Culture
10
Nava Dance Theatre

Nava Dance Theatre uses the south Indian dance form as a medium for artistic reflection and discovery.

Arts & Culture
11
Moveius Contemporary Ballet Inc dba Dance Loft on 14

Guided by the belief in dance as a powerful means for cultural and social transformation, Moveius Contemporary Ballet's mission is to catalyze art and community vibrancy in Washington, DC and expand access to the performing arts to a full…

Arts & Culture
12
Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre

To preserve, promote, and present the art of ballet and dance through performances, education, and community outreach, making high-quality cultural experiences accessible to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dance Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Artist Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/69
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,496

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/61
Grantees still filing
40/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONTRA-TIEMPO — $89,325 · Arts & CultureCONTRA-TIEMPODANCING GROUNDS — $74,913 · Arts & CultureDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $63,350 · Arts & CultureANANYA DANCE THEATRE — $58,900 · Arts & CultureViver Brasil Dance Company — $58,450 · Arts & CultureFiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company — $55,850 · Arts & CultureAlabama Dance Council — $55,850 · Arts & CultureFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS — $55,850 · Arts & CultureLES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO INC — $55,850 · Arts & CultureU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC — $55,850 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE WORKS — $55,850 · Arts & CultureTU DANCE — $55,850 · Arts & CultureDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC — $55,850 · Arts & CultureNEW DANCE THEATRE INC — $50,780 · Arts & Culture+34 more — $599,896 · Arts & Culture+34 moreWORDS BEATS LIFE INC — $86,995 · OtherWORDS BEATS LIFE INCKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MOTION INC — $55,850 · OtherKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MO…HOOK ARTS MEDIA INC — $55,850 · OtherHOOK ARTS MEDIA INCChicago Human Rhythm Project — $55,850 · OtherChicago Human Rhythm Proj…CHRISTOPHER K MORGAN & ARTISTS LLC — $33,920 · OtherCHRISTOPHER K MORGAN & AR…HARGE DANCE STORIES — $33,475 · OtherHARGE DANCE STORIESKHMER ARTS ACADEMY — $33,475 · OtherKHMER ARTS ACADEMYYELLOW PERIL LLC - ACH — $31,367 · OtherYELLOW PERIL LLC - ACHC4 ATLANTA INC — $25,820 · OtherC4 ATLANTA INC+6 more — $42,644 · Other+6 moreDestiny Arts Center — $89,325 · Recreation & SportsEYAKKAM DANCE COMPANY — $33,467 · Recreation & SportsTHE ARTIST COLLECTIVE — $33,475 · EducationONE EAST PALO ALTO — $9,334 · Education+2 more — $200 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,442,414Other$455,246Recreation & Sports$122,792Education$43,009

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDestiny Arts Center — $89,325 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCONTRA-TIEMPO — $89,325 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetDANCING GROUNDS — $74,913 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $63,350 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetANANYA DANCE THEATRE — $58,900 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetViver Brasil Dance Company — $58,450 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MOTION INC — $55,850 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company — $55,850 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHOOK ARTS MEDIA INC — $55,850 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS — $55,850 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetChicago Human Rhythm Project — $55,850 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO INC — $55,850 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC — $55,850 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHERITAGE WORKS — $55,850 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTU DANCE — $55,850 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC — $55,850 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC — $50,780 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetALLISON ORR DANCE INC — $38,100 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTAU DANCE THEATER — $34,967 over 2y, 27% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $33,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC — $33,700 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetKANKOURAN WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY — $33,475 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE ARTIST COLLECTIVE — $33,475 over 2y, 15% of budgetDiamano Coura West African Dance Co — $33,475 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $33,475 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDANCE IQUAIL INC — $33,467 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetEYAKKAM DANCE COMPANY — $33,467 over 2y, 59% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET — $33,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKINDING SINDAW HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $32,767 over 2y, 20% of budgetC4 ATLANTA INC — $25,820 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC — $25,820 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCABD INC — $22,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSACRAMENTO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetORLANDO BALLET INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE — $18,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBALLET OKLAHOMA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET MEMPHIS CORPORATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS BALLET — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE EAST PALO ALTO — $9,334 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROFESSIONAL FLAIR INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSegunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJazzantiqua Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetGUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

New England Foundatio…The Shubert Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Map Fund IncMid Atlantic Arts IncNational Performance …Doris Duke Charitable…The Howard Gilman Fou…The International Ass…The Ford FoundationThe Harkness Foundati…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…
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

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 Danceusa 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center Inc — 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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