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Alabama Dance Council

Alabama Dance Council (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,064 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($142,063). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$373k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$384k
Net assets
$75k
6/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Alabama Dance Council does

Mission

The Alabama Dance Council, Inc. is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of the Alabama dance community. The Alabama Dance Council is a statewide network of people who are inspired to make, teach, share and experience all forms of dance as a powerful way to move toward a more just society.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Alabama Dance Festival

    $134,571 spentof which $77,536 as grants$69,196 earned by the program
    52% of program spending
  2. Bill Bates Leadership Institute

    $42,207 spentof which $37,027 as grants$12,180 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  3. AL Dance Educators, K12 Conference, Technical assistance and other member services

    $79,898 spentof which $20,105 as grants$35,828 earned by the program
    31% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,676.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($189k) Net assets 100 ($101k)2022 Revenue 140 ($350k) Expenses 198 ($375k) Net assets 75 ($76k)2023 Revenue 141 ($352k) Expenses 192 ($362k) Net assets 65 ($66k)2024 Revenue 152 ($379k) Expenses 203 ($383k) Net assets 61 ($62k)2025 Revenue 150 ($373k) Expenses 190 ($360k) Net assets 74 ($75k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (150)Expenses (190)Net assets (74)Peer revenue range

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 $121k to $95k (−22%).

$121k
$95k
$78k
$65k
$76k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 56% · 2022 33% · 2023 38% · 2024 43% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of Alabama Dance Council’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’21
−$25k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$5k
’24
$13k
’25
1.1
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

20212022202320242025
Listed55565
Joined·+2+1+1+0
No longer listed·2101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $66k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
South Arts Incunclassified
$142k
Danceusaunclassified
$56k
funders
2
3
1
5
4
4
4
4
1

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Alabama Dance Council’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

Alabama Dance Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% 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 Alabama Dance Council.

37%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 34% · 2021 64% · 2022 63% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.

“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

Alabama Dance Council draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 5 states in all.

IL
MA
DC
AL
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Alabama Dance Council has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Alabama Dance Council receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $260k on record.

Federal$260k
grants $260kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$260k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alabama Dance Council?
Alabama Dance Council (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,064 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($142,063). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alabama Dance Council have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $384,064 in grants to Alabama Dance Council, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Alabama Dance Council?
South Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $142,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alabama Dance Council find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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