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The International Association of Blacks in Dance

To preserve and promote dance by people of african ancestry.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$5.8MRecreation & Sports$100kOther$957k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $3.2M
$125,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANCE IQUAIL$200,000
THREADS DANCE PROJECT$200,000
SOLE DEFINED$200,000
ROBERT MOSES KIN$200,000
WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE$200,000
JAMEL GAINES CREATIVE$200,000
RED CLAY DANCE CO$200,000
UBW INC$200,000
TU DANCE$197,000
MUNTU DANCE THEATRE$190,000
CHICAGO CITY THEATRE CO$186,175
THE FORCES OF NATURE INC$125,000
BALLETHNIC$112,500
SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE$103,500
SOUTH CHICAGO DANCE$100,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THREADS DANCE PROJECT: $200k → 11%DANCE IQUAIL: $200k → 22%DIMENSIONS DANCE THEATRE: $64k → 10%ROBERT MOSES KIN: $200k → 10%LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%JAMEL GAINES CREATIVE: $200k → 20%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE: $200k → 16%REJOICE DIASPORA DANCE: $25k → 12%COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%BALLETHNIC: $113k → 14%NEW DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 12%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 14%SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE: $104k → 9%DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATER: $100k → 14%SOLE DEFINED: $200k → 11%TU DANCE: $197k → 14%THE PHILADELPHIA DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 22%DIAMANO COURA WEST: $54k → 10%LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%UBW INC: $200k → 20%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $25k → 17%NEW DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 12%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 14%DEEPLY ROOTED PRODUCTIONS INC: $25k → 14%SOLE DEFINED: $78k → 11%THE PHILADELPHIA DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 22%DIAMONO COURA WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY: $27k → 10%LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $25k → 14%THE FORCES OF NATURE INC: $125k → 17%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $25k → 14%COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $25k → 17%ATLANTA DANCE CONNECTION: $75k → 13%NEW DANCE THEATRE: $25k → 12%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $75k → 14%EMERGE125: $100k → 17%KANKOURAN WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 14%NAJWA DANCE CORPS: $91k → 14%MODARTS DANCE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%PRINCESS MHOON DANCE FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%STEP AFRIKA: $100k → 14%RED CLAY DANCE CO: $200k → 14%SOUTH CHICAGO DANCE: $100k → 14%MUNTU DANCE THEATRE: $190k → 14%DANSE4NIA REPERTORY: $59k → 22%CHICAGO CITY THEATRE CO: $186k → 14%MUNTU DANCE THEATRE OF CHICAGO: $89k → 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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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 44 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against -41% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
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Total granted

$6.7M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
-41%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • MD
    MUNTU DANCE THEATRE
    5× · 2018–2025 · $316k · revenue +37%
  • SD
    SOLE DEFINED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $304k · revenue +162% · 26% of their budget
  • DC
    DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
    4× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PM
    PRINCESS MHOON DANCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • REJOICE DIASPORA DANCE THEATER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -41%
  • KD
    KALEIDOSCOPE DANCE THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%

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
Kuumba West African Dance Company
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3
World Dance Theatre

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

Arts & Culture
4
Indian Dance Training Center

Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…

Arts & Culture
5
Nyeri Madi Cultural Dance Group
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6
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
7
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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8
Michiyaya Dance Company Inc

The mission of MICHIYAYA Dance is to present multidisciplinary performances that inspire and empower people with limitless boundaries. In addition to performances, they offer accessible, educational public initiatives nurturing voices and…

Arts & Culture
9
Barkha Dance Company Inc

Creating, Performing & Sharing Powerful classical dance Kathak

Arts & Culture
10
Motiv8 Dance Movement and Performing Arts
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
Tickle the Sleeping Giant Inc

To create contemporary dance works

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Dance Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Collage Dance 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,516

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

42 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. 42 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUNTU DANCE THEATRE — $316,000 · Arts & CultureMUNTU DANCE THEATRESOLE DEFINED — $304,160 · Arts & CultureDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $300,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE IQUAIL INC — $251,000 · Arts & CultureTHREADS DANCE PROJECT — $251,000 · Arts & CultureU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC — $251,000 · Arts & CultureRobert Moses Kin — $249,860 · Arts & CultureTU DANCE — $248,000 · Arts & Culturejamel gaines creative outlet inc — $241,000 · Arts & CultureWIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC — $241,000 · Arts & CultureChicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center — $227,175 · Arts & CultureNEW DANCE THEATRE INC — $225,000 · Arts & CultureLULA WASHINGTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE FOUNDATION — $225,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC — $225,000 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Dance Company — $225,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $2,046,546 · Arts & Culture+22 moreRED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC — $241,000 · OtherRED CLAY DANCE …EMERGE 125 INC — $160,000 · OtherEMERGE 125 INCATLANTA DANCE CONNECTION — $116,000 · OtherATLANTA DANCE C…BALLETHNIC — $112,500 · OtherBALLETHNICKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MOTION INC — $107,667 · OtherKYLE ABRAHAMABR…PRINCESS MHOON DANCE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherPRINCESS MHOON …DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON — $35,000 · OtherHAYIYA DANCE THEATRE INC — $35,000 · Other+3 more — $75,000 · Other+3 moreELEONE INC dba ELEONE DANCE THEATRE — $100,200 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$5,826,741Other$957,167Recreation & Sports$100,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUNTU DANCE THEATRE — $316,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetSOLE DEFINED — $304,160 over 4y, 26% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $300,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetDANCE IQUAIL INC — $251,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetTHREADS DANCE PROJECT — $251,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC — $251,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRobert Moses Kin — $249,860 over 5y, 60% of budgetTU DANCE — $248,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC — $241,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetjamel gaines creative outlet inc — $241,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC — $241,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetChicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center — $227,175 over 4y, 33% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC — $225,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetLULA WASHINGTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC — $225,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Dance Company — $225,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFORCES OF NATURE INC — $176,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetEMERGE 125 INC — $160,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetDeeply Rooted Productions Inc — $160,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSTEPAFRIKA USA INC — $160,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetKANKOURAN WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY — $160,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE — $160,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater — $142,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE — $141,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetMODArts Dance Collective Inc — $140,700 over 4y, 79% of budgetNAJWA DANCE CORPS — $132,096 over 4y, 18% of budgetDiamano Coura West African Dance Co — $118,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetDIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER INCORPORATED — $115,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetDANSE4NIA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE INC — $110,250 over 5y, 40% of budgetELEONE INC dba ELEONE DANCE THEATRE — $100,200 over 5y, 15% of budgetAYODELE DRUM AND DANCE NFP — $99,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY — $38,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGARTH FAGAN DANCE INC — $38,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetIIBADA DANCERS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON — $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetREJOICE DIASPORA DANCE THEATER — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE — $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJONES-HAYWOOD DANCE SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMOJUBA DANCE COLLECTIVE — $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% 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.

Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Andrew W Mellon F…DanceusaThe Shubert Foundatio…New England Foundatio…Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Richard H Driehau…The Ford FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…Stockton Rush Bartol …
Mid Atlantic Arts IncMD32.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Danceusa · The Shubert Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Richard H Driehaus Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Stockton Rush Bartol 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 The International Association of Blacks in Dance 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 · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report 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.

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How do I get to The International Association of Blacks in Dance?

Find your warmest path to The International Association of Blacks in Dance 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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