California · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,124,661 to it, the largest being THE SNIDER FOUNDATION ($705,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $347k
What American Contemporary Ballet Inc does
Mission
To produce and present choreographic works of the highest quality which exemplify ballet as a musical art form, and create an opportunity for social and intellectual engagement with the art.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The nutcracker suite: an immersive "nutcracker" production performed to live music in a winter wonderland, featuring the dances from the land of the sweets. The intimate venue allows the audience a chance to see the dancers and musicians up close.
$279,104 spent$199,535 earned by the program27% of program spendingBalanchine & the classics: the presentation of ballet masterworks and new works that build upon the tradition of classical ballet, always performed with live music. This program paired excerpts from george balanchine's la source with a new ballet, sapphiresan imagined ballet of balanchine's originally intended a fourth act for his ballet jewels, set to music by arnold schoenberg in honor of the composer's 150th birthday.
$294,750 spent$99,049 earned by the program29% of program spendingAcb jazz: an original ballet program featuring new choreography set to jazz music from the 1920s. The program is a live performance experience where classical ballet meets 1920s jazz in an intimate setting. The program concludes with an opportunity for audience engagement.
$246,435 spentof which $330 as grants$81,748 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe rite & burlesque. This program presented two original ballets: the rite, a world-premiere dance drama set to stravinsky's the rite of spring, and burlesque, an original ballet performed to a commissioned score by pulitzer prize-winning composer charles wuorinen. Both works feature original choreography by lincoln jones and are performed to live music. The program concludes with an opportunity for audience engagement.
$195,505 spentof which $330 as grants$192,585 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,015,794.
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 2023 to 2024, from $215k to $465k (+117%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2020 10% · 2021 66% · 2022 35% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC’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. 2 of the last 7 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
Lincoln Jones
Exec director & artistic d
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $49k → $365k.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
40% 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 AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 32% · 2019 25% · 2020 42% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 55% — broadly stable.
“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
32% of AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC'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
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $859k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET 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 AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC?
- AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,124,661 to it, the largest being THE SNIDER FOUNDATION ($705,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,124,661 in grants to AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC?
- THE SNIDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $705,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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