Skip to content
Danceusa at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Danceusa

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

$644k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.0MYouth Development$88kEducation$200
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $272,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $644,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $371,200 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.
$24,800
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANCERS GROUP$49,600
TAMARA LADONNA MOVING SPIRITS INC$24,800
CULTURE MILL INC$24,800
PRODUCER HUB INC$24,800
NAVA DANCE THEATRE$24,800
INDIGENOUS ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION$24,800
FRACTURED ATLAS$24,800
PIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE$24,800
THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE$24,800
FULL CIRCLE PRODUCTIONS INC$24,800
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:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRODUCER HUB INC: $25k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
NV
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 36 repeat orgs$568k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
33

Total granted

$1.8M
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

81%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • 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

  • BA
    BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +21%
  • CA
    C4 ATLANTA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue 0%
  • CI
    CABD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +91%
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
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
—
2
Ballet Folklorico De Barajas
Arts & Culture
3
Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre

Dance Education and Performance

—
4
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
5
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
6
Adele Myers and Dancers

Adele Myers and Dancers is a professional national touring dance theater company that suppports Miami-based dance artists at early stages of their careers by offering a commission for new work, mentorship, and performance opportunities in…

Public Benefit
7
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
—
8
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
9
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…

—
10
Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective

A non-profit arts organization supporting and connecting the indianapolis community through dance and movement.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dance Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of Grinnell College. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 78 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
42/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $58,650 · Arts & CultureViver Brasil Dance Company: $58,450 · Arts & CultureFiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company: $55,850 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE WORKS: $55,850 · Arts & CultureDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC: $55,850 · Arts & CultureFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS: $55,850 · Arts & CultureAlabama Dance Council: $55,850 · Arts & CultureLES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO INC: $55,850 · Arts & CultureTU DANCE: $55,850 · Arts & CultureU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $55,850 · Arts & Culture+38 more: $740,826 · Arts & Culture+38 moreWORDS BEATS LIFE INC: $86,995 · OtherWORDS BEATS LIFE INCKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $55,850 · OtherKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MO…Chicago Human Rhythm Project: $55,850 · OtherChicago Human Rhythm Proj…HOOK ARTS MEDIA INC: $55,850 · OtherHOOK ARTS MEDIA INCCHRISTOPHER K MORGAN & ARTISTS LLC: $33,920 · OtherCHRISTOPHER K MORGAN & AR…KHMER ARTS ACADEMY: $33,475 · OtherKHMER ARTS ACADEMYHARGE DANCE STORIES: $33,475 · OtherHARGE DANCE STORIESYELLOW PERIL LLC - ACH: $31,367 · OtherYELLOW PERIL LLC - ACHC4 ATLANTA INC: $25,820 · OtherFULL CIRCLE PRODUCTIONS INC: $24,800 · OtherTAMARA LADONNA MOVING SPIRITS INC: $24,800 · OtherINDIGENOUS ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION: $24,800 · Other+6 more: $42,644 · Other+6 moreDestiny Arts Center: $89,325 · Recreation & SportsEYAKKAM DANCE COMPANY: $33,467 · Recreation & SportsTHE ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $33,475 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $24,800 · EducationONE EAST PALO ALTO: $9,334 · Education+2 more: $200 · EducationPRODUCER HUB INC: $24,800 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,591,214Other$529,646Recreation & Sports$122,792Education$67,809Human Services$24,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $58,650 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetHERITAGE WORKS: $55,850 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC: $55,850 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetChicago Human Rhythm Project: $55,850 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS: $55,850 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHOOK ARTS MEDIA INC: $55,850 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetLES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO INC: $55,850 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTU DANCE: $55,850 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $55,850 over 2y, 2.2% 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 budgetDANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC: $33,700 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE ARTIST COLLECTIVE: $33,475 over 2y, 15% of budgetDiamano Coura West African Dance Co: $33,475 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetKANKOURAN WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY: $33,475 over 2y, 17% 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 budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $25,820 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetC4 ATLANTA INC: $25,820 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE INC: $24,800 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCULTURE MILL INC: $24,800 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $24,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCABD INC: $22,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSACRAMENTO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetGRAND RAPIDS BALLET: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $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 budgetBALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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

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 Danceusa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Danceusa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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.

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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Danceusa’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home