California · Nonprofit
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,705,683 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,119,750). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Alonzo King Lines Ballet does
Mission
To nurture artistry and development of creative expression in dance through collaboration, performance, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Company - Alonzo King Lines Ballet is a san francisco-based performing arts company consisting of 12 professional dancers from around the world. During fiscal year 2025, lines ballet performed 41 times in 18 cities and 5 countries. While on tour, in addition to performances, the company also provided workshops, demonstrations, and interviews. In spring 2025, lines ballet premiered a new work with live performance from critically acclaimed jazz musician, ambrose akinmusire.
$3,398,841 spent$941,659 earned by the program71% of program spendingEducation - Alonzo King Lines Ballet offers training, performance opportunities, and scholarships for aspiring and pre-professional dancers. This includes the lines bfa program, the lines summer program, the lines training program, and the lines community programs. The lines bfa program is a collaboration with the dominican university of ca and has a faculty composed of alonzo king, Alonzo King Lines Ballet company alumni and guest artists and 21 students in fy25. The lines summer program is designed for aspiring artists aged 11-25 and offers a unified approach to training rooted in the philosophy of alonzo king. (see schedule o for continuation.) dancers are guided on a collaborative journey that values risk-taking and independent thinking. There was a total of over 180 enrolled students in our three programs in fy25. The lines training program is a full-time professional experience for avid dancers aged 18-24 and in fy25, 39 were enrolled. The lines community programs is providing arts programming in collaboration with san francisco unified school district, sf rec and park and other partners, serving over 1,300 prek through high school grade students in over 9,500 contact hours,…
$1,304,565 spentof which $85,765 as grants$1,280,176 earned by the program27% of program spendingDance center - lines dance center is the headquarters for the Alonzo King Lines Ballet company, administration, and all education programs of the organization. It is located at the corner of 7th and market street in san francisco. Dance center offers pre-professional classes to the community, and manages rentals of the 6 studios.
$100,208 spent$84,139 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,803,614.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $8.0M (+285%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 10% · 2022 37% · 2023 14% · 2024 8% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of ALONZO KING LINES BALLET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Korri Jackson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $319k → $1.4M.
17 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 ALONZO KING LINES BALLET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 ALONZO KING LINES BALLET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 33% · 2020 31% · 2021 34% · 2022 87% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of ALONZO KING LINES BALLET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of ALONZO KING LINES BALLET'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 $5.3M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALONZO KING LINES BALLET
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALONZO KING LINES BALLET?
- ALONZO KING LINES BALLET (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,705,683 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,119,750). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALONZO KING LINES BALLET have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $12,705,683 in grants to ALONZO KING LINES BALLET, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALONZO KING LINES BALLET?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,119,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALONZO KING LINES BALLET find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing