Minnesota · Nonprofit
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,798,813 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($700,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $689k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Ananya Dance Theatre does
Mission
Ananya dance theater is an ensemble company of bipoc women and femme professional dance artists. We create original contemporary dance theater at the intersection of artistic excellence and social justice. We work to dismantle hierarchies and build liberation, inspired by the lives and dreams of bipoc women and femmes around the globe. We will celebrate our 20th season in 2025. Our artistry unfolds through yorchha, our devised contemporary feminist dance form, which embodies our response to the western/euro-american movement practices that dominate the contemporary dance world. Yorchha proudly claims the descriptors "contemporary- and "innovative" even as it celebrates its creation from an intentional deconstruction and reassembly of traditional odissi, vinyasa yoga, and the martial art chhau. While yorchha is rooted in principles of south asian movement forms, we shape its expression to move beyond an affiliation with "indian culture" that offers constrictive understandings of "hindu"
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The principal activity of Ananya Dance Theatre for 2023 was the creation and staged presentation of "michhil amra | we are the procession," an 80- minute work of original dance theater with commissioned music, utilizing the services of 17 performers, directors, musicians, and composers. Presented at the o'shaughnessy at st. Catherine university, st. Paul, minnesota, and attended by 794 people, an increase of 34% over 2022, and marking a return to pre-pandemic audience attendance.
$203,418 spent$116,384 earned by the program42% of program spendingAnanya Dance Theatre led and participated in free public workshops and events for young people and adults between january 1 and december 31, 2023, with a combined total of 529 attendees. Weekly classes (donation based) and our annual summer intensive (tuition based) drew a combined total of 46 participants. These convenings occurred largely in person, at the shawngram institute for performance & social justice and at various outdoor locations around the twin cities. Live streaming was available for the largest events, with a combined total of 655 views.
$39,578 spent$8,819 earned by the program8% of program spendingAnanya Dance Theatre presented an excerpt of "n?n gher?o: surrounded by salt" at the annual association for performing arts professionals (apap) at city center in new york city (attendance 150), and a full performance of "n?n gherao" at jacob's pillow dance festival in becket, ma (attendance 172). Adt performed an excerpt of "michhil amra | we are the procession" for the 40th anniversary celebration of the women's foundation of minnesota (attendance 200.)
$37,645 spent$9,000 earned by the program8% of program spendingAnanya Dance Theatre maintained a marketing presence at the 2023 midwest arts exchange (max) regional arts conference and the 2023 apap conference, held a public panel event honoring three minnesotan community-engaged artists who received significant recognitions in 2022/23, conducted a choreography laboratory for emerging creative dance artists, stored costumes and set pieces from past productions at an off-site facility, and maintained a physical facility beyond the requirements of specific program projects, management, and fundraising.
$201,690 spent42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $482,331.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $741k to $1.5M (+102%).
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: 2020 26% · 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 25% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of ANANYA DANCE THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Gina Kundan
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $61k → $368k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 ANANYA DANCE THEATRE’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
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
50% 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 ANANYA DANCE THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 61% · 2019 52% · 2020 35% · 2021 43% · 2022 71% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of ANANYA DANCE THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $785k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding ANANYA DANCE THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$155k
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 ANANYA DANCE THEATRE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ANANYA DANCE THEATRE: 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 ANANYA DANCE THEATRE?
- ANANYA DANCE THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,798,813 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($700,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANANYA DANCE THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,798,813 in grants to ANANYA DANCE THEATRE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANANYA DANCE THEATRE?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANANYA DANCE THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 23 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