New York · Nonprofit
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 227 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,843,107 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($22,295,300). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 227
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $229M
What Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc does
Mission
Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education, and community programs for all people. This performing arts community plays a crucial social role, using the beauty and humanity of the african-american heritage and other cultures to unite people of all races, ages and backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alvin ailey american dance theater: see schedule ofounded by alvin ailey in 1958, alvin ailey american dance theater now annually reaches about 300,000 audience members across the globe. Since its inception, the company has performed in 71 countries on 6 continents for an estimated 25 million people at venues worldwide, plus tens of millions more people via television appearances. In 2008, the ailey company was designated "a vital american cultural ambassador to the world" by the united states congress. The company consists of thirty two of the most talented and versatile dancers in the world, and its diverse repertory is unparalleled in modern dance. A typical alvin ailey american dance theater season includes a u.s. Tour to over 20 cities, international touring, and two engagements in its home base of new york city: a spring engagement at brooklyn academy of music and a 5-week winter engagement at new york city center, where ailey is the principal dance company and has appeared annually since 1972.
$19,320,027 spent$12,264,539 earned by the program44% of program spendingAiley education and outreach programs: see schedule othrough the ailey school, its entensive arts in education programs, and the ailey extension, the organization is committed to bringing dance into the lives of individuals of all ages and backgrounds. Founded in 1969, the ailey school is an accredited institutional member of the national association of schools of dance and serves as the official school of the alvin ailey american dance theater. The school offers more than 300 classes weekly for ages 3 through 25 in a broad range of dance techniques. The school's scholarship program provides assistance for talented and deserving students; approximately 200 scholarships are awarded each year and the majority of finacial assistance goes to minority students. In conjuction with fordham university, the ailey school also offers a bachelor of fine arts degree in dance. Each year, ailey arts in education and community programs provide young people from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds the opportunity to explore their creative potential, build self-esteem, and develop life-skills such as teamwork and self-discipline. Programs include aileycamp, a unique summer day camp program…
$19,301,836 spentof which $1,854,100 as grants$10,665,560 earned by the program44% of program spendingAiley ii: see schedule olaunched by mr. Ailey in 1974, ailey ii is now universally renowned for merging the country's best young dance talent with the creative vision of today's most outstanding emerging choreographers. Ailey ii is comprised of 12 of the ailey school's most promising scholarship students and reaches audiences in more than 40 cities each year across the u.s. And abroad. The company offers its dancer invaluable performing and teaching experience and crucial training, creating a bridge from the classroom to the stage.
$2,784,865 spent$1,245,996 earned by the program6% of program spendingAncillary on-site community programs (studio operations and rentals)
$2,023,641 spent$720,502 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,430,369.
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 $225M to $282M (+25%).
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 9% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 31% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Bennett Rink
Trustee/executive director
Board chair
Daria Wallach
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 89 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $3.6M.
31 of 227 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 227 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
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 20% · 2019 31% · 2020 56% · 2021 83% · 2022 11% · 2023 10% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
54% of ALVIN AILEY DANCE 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 $29M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Education$810k
- National Endowment for the Arts$750k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$489k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$333k
- Department of State$3k
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 ALVIN AILEY DANCE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC?
- ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 227 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,843,107 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($22,295,300). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 227 organizations giving $61,843,107 in grants to ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC, 137 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $22,295,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 227 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