North Carolina · Nonprofit
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,189,942 to it, the largest being THE WENDY E SCRIPPS FOUNDATION ($500,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $18M
What American Dance Festival Inc does
Mission
To encourage and support the creation of new modern dance work by both established and emerging choreographers; preserve our modern dance heritage through continued presentation of classic works, as well as through archival efforts; build wider national and international audiences for modern dance; enhance public understanding and appreciation of the art form and its cultural and historical significance; and to provide a sound scientific / aesthetic base for professional education and training of dancers and a forum for integrating and disseminating information on dance education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To encourage and support the creation of new modern dance work by both established and emerging choreographers; to preserve our modern dance heritage through continued presentation of classic works, as well as through archival efforts; and to build wider national and international audiences for modern dance.
$1,727,390 spent$401,620 earned by the program55% of program spendingTo provide a sound scientific and aesthetic base for professional education and training of dancers and a forum for integrating and disseminating information of dance education.
$971,583 spentof which $158,159 as grants$667,546 earned by the program31% of program spendingTo enhance public understanding and appreciation of the art form and its cultural and historical significance.
$454,420 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,153,393.
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 $13M to $16M (+21%).
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 6% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 11% · 2021 31% · 2022 18% · 2023 8% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL 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. 3 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
Jodee Nimerichter
Executive director/president
Board chair
Curt C Myers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $132k → $706k.
8 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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 DANCE FESTIVAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
27% 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 DANCE FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 40% · 2019 19% · 2020 23% · 2021 35% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% — 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
59% of AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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 DANCE FESTIVAL INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $464k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 DANCE FESTIVAL INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $661k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$661k
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 AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL 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 DANCE FESTIVAL INC?
- AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,189,942 to it, the largest being THE WENDY E SCRIPPS FOUNDATION ($500,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $4,189,942 in grants to AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC?
- THE WENDY E SCRIPPS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 49 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