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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.

$109k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $90,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $109,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,000 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.
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JAQUEL KNIGHT FOUNDATION$20,000
DANCE USA$10,000
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE$10,000
THE DANCE RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORG$10,000
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE INC$10,000
WORLD ARTS WEST$10,000
ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WORLD ARTS WEST: $10k → 10%THE DANCE RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 14%DANCE USA: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE INC: $10k → 8%ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE: $10k → 8%THE JAQUEL KNIGHT FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORG: $10k → 8%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.
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 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
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2
Dda Foundation for the Arts
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Litvak Dance Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Earthdance Creative Living Project

Exploration of dance movement & music

Education
6
Dancing Through Bri

Dance scholarships

Arts & Culture
7
Dance Action Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Ballet Folklorico De Barajas
Arts & Culture
9
World Dance Theatre

To promote cross-cultural awareness, understanding, and appreciation through the arts

Arts & Culture
10
Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Dance of Asian America

Dance of Asian America promotes & preserves the rich cultural heritage of Asia through authentic Asian dance. In doing so, DAA sustains traditions, builds international ties, educates Houstonians in cross-cultural understanding &

Civil Rights
12
Nichole Canuso Dance Company

The Organization creates movement-based works that expore the complexity of human experience. Using subtle gesture, explosive movement, humor, and interactive design, the organization develops projects at the crossroads of movement, visual…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Danceusa; 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.
03the 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Jaquel Knight Foundation: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Jaquel Knight FoundationTHE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCEWorld Arts West: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWorld Arts WestDANCEUSA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDANCEUSAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCEDance Resource Center of Greater LA: $10,000 · OtherDance Resource Center of …ACTOR'S FUND OF AMERICA XXXXX0009: $10,000 · OtherACTOR'S FUND OF AMERICA X…NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL DAN…
Arts & Culture$60,000Other$20,000Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Jaquel Knight Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDance Resource Center of Greater LA: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetACTOR'S FUND OF AMERICA XXXXX0009: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWorld Arts West: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDANCEUSA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $10,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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 8 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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