Maryland · Nonprofit
Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc
Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,592 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($307,592). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $335k
- Net assets
- $341k
What Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to providing the finest quality ballet training utilizing the Vaganova Method with personal and artistic mentoring to prepare young talented dancers to become strong and fully developed artists ready to take their places in major dance companies around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The 2024/25 full-time training program was held in person January-June 2025 and the new 2025/26 training year began in September 2025. ABFs professional training program students prepared for the end of the school year performance of the classic ballet, Dance of the Hours and Pictures at an Exhibition, June 17 at Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center (MCCAC) with these new choreographies by resident instructors and choreographers. Costumes and props were purchased. ABF presented its annual full Nutcracker on stage at MCCAC in December including a low-cost matinee Mini-Nut for elementary students followed by a Q&A and photo shoot with the dancers. Three well-attended summer intensives were held in July and August. As part of its nonprofit community outreach mission, ABA created and danced an original choreography for Montgomery Countys MLK Jr. Celebration at Strathmore Music Center. ABF dancers performed at Shephard Pratt special education school for students with developmental disabilities. Free Peter and the Wolf childrens show in Silver Spring B&O historic train station. Free in-studio performance for the public to Meet the Dancers. ABF continued its community outreach with…
$283,899 spent$198,847 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $283,899.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $469k to $1.0M (+123%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 23% · 2023 17% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $77k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 80% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Grant$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc?
- Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,592 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($307,592). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $334,592 in grants to Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $307,592 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Akhmedova Ballet Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing