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Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy
The debbie allen dance academy is a cultural center committed to making dance a meaningful experience for all individuals.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $90,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $109,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JAQUEL KNIGHT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DANCE USA | $10,000 |
| THE DANCE RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE INC | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORG | $10,000 |
| WORLD ARTS WEST | $10,000 |
| ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% 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.
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.
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.
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.
Exploration of dance movement & music
Dance Alive, Inc., aspires to enrich humanity by sustaining a professional ballet company of the highest caliber which strives for excellence in the fields of artistic creativity, performance, education and community leadership.
Dance scholarships
Various forms of dance and ballet instruction for all ages. Dance and ballet performances to entertain and enhance the culture of the community.
Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center (TWDCC) facilitates a working home for professional world & contemporary dance artists, while providing dance education that is committed to access, equity and excellence.
To promote cross-cultural awareness, understanding, and appreciation through the arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Association for Dance Medicine and Science and the most unlike its peers is Actor's Fund of America XXXXX0009. 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 The Jaquel Knight Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dance Resource Center of Greater LA ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE ↗
- Who funds ACTOR'S FUND OF AMERICA XXXXX0009 ↗
- Who funds World Arts West ↗
- Who funds DANCEUSA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy 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.
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.