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The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$933k
Granted FY2025still arriving
146
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$5.8MReligion$961kHealth$625kEducation$179kRecreation & Sports$40kHousing & Shelter$30kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 146 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k131 grants · $533k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOYCE THEATER$100,000
92nd STREET Y$100,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM)$75,000
WORKS & PROCESS$15,000
JACOB'S PILLOW$10,000
BALLET HISPANICO$10,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$10,000
THE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION$10,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION$10,000
JOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION$10,000
THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS (SAI & Creative Pipeli$10,000
GINA GIBNEY DANCE (GIBNEY)$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY$10,000
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 184 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

184 repeat relationships: 93 still active in FY2025, 91 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184
98

Total granted

$7.2M
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+4%

Still filing today

59%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +31%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $645k · revenue +16%
  • JT
    JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • BA
    BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (2017 pledge in full)
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE - HARKNESS CTR FOR DANCE INJURIES
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SI
    SOZO IMPACT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
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2
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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3
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Threshold Dance Projects Inc

To nurture a personal commitment to dance as a life-long process of discovery through live performance of original choreography, interactive educational residencies, outreach programs, and digital media, and to create through the…

Arts & Culture
5
Herman Cornejo the State of the Art

To creatively explore the intersection

Arts & Culture
6
Site-Specicific Dances Inc

Dance and music performances held in specific sites, often of historic significance, often free and open to the public

Arts & Culture
7
Litvak Dance Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Pony Box Dance Theater

Pony Box Dance Theatre is a 21st century digital dream of Homeric athleticism with Olympian execution. An artful, moving exploration of men in dance, Pony Box Dance Theater aspires to bring the joy and beauty of dance to all people.Our…

Arts & Culture
9
Tickle the Sleeping Giant Inc

To create contemporary dance works

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Fjk Dance Inc

A Contemporary Dance Company Based in New York City

Arts & Culture
12
Ballet Folklorico De Barajas
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 Jerome Robbins Foundation. 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

154 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. 154 of the 323 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/154
Grantees still filing
93/154
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $700,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCJOYCE THEATER: $645,000 · OtherJOYCE THEATERNYU LANGONE ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL: $300,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITALNYU LANGONE - HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES: $300,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE - HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES+103 more: $1,552,690 · Other+103 moreNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $645,400 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $295,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC+80 more: $2,034,699 · Arts & Culture+80 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $950,400 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $27,500 · EducationNew York University: $25,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $21,500 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $13,000 · Human ServicesAbraham In Motion Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY: $11,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Public Benefit
Other$3,497,690Arts & Culture$2,975,099Religion$950,400Education$104,000Human Services$18,000Philanthropy$16,500Public Benefit$12,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $950,400 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $700,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $645,400 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $295,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $108,850 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $91,022 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $90,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $71,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORKS AND PROCESS INC: $61,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $56,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $51,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $48,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC: $47,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $45,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNOCHE FLAMENCA INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $43,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $39,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $36,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDOVA INC: $36,490 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $33,025 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC: $32,275 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $32,187 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUBOVITCH DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetTHE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $29,525 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSTREB INC: $29,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDANCE WORKS INC: $28,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDancing Classrooms Inc: $26,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO INC: $26,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetDANCEUSA: $26,250 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,975 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNew York University: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetjamel gaines creative outlet inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDancewave Inc: $23,700 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $23,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN BALLETINC: $22,500 over 8y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORKS AND PROCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIQUE PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NOCHE FLAMENCA INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DOVA INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds GALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗

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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…Arnhold Foundation IncMertz Gilmore Foundat…New England Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Fan Fox and Lesli…The Shubert Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…Dance Service New Yor…The Hyde and Watson F…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Ford Foundation
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY124.2× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Arnhold Foundation Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Dance Service New York City Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Ford 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 The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 323 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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