Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE
ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $713,665 to it, the largest being DREAMS R US FOUNDATION ($313,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $714k
- Net assets
- $0
What Arts in Schools Collaborative does
Mission
The mission of the program is to foster self-esteem, social awareness, mutual respect, teamwork, and joy in young people and their communities through social dance education and performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Musicopia dance follows the standards-based curriculum of the dancing classrooms global program established in 1994 in new york city by four-time show dance world champion pierre dulaine and the american ballroom theater company,as seen in the award-winning documentary mad hot ballroom. The primary musicopia dance initiative is in-school residencies with professional artists who teach ballroom dances (rumba, swing, tango, foxtrot, waltz, and merengue), and non-competitive dances (heel-toe polka, the stomp, salsa, and the electric slide). Lessons take place during the school day in 45-minute sessions twice weekly for ten weeks. An entire fifth or eighth grade student body, and their classroom teachers, participate. Curriculum assignments occur throughout each residency, which connect the ballroom dance experience to the students personal and academic lives. Each residency concludes in a culminating public event where all students demonstrate the dances they learned. Select students go on to semifinal competitions. Winners of the semifinals participate in the colors of the rainbow team match final, with teams representing schools throughout the philadelphia region. The musicopia…
$171,327 spent$144,365 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,327.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $131k to $0 (−100%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 19% · 2023 11% · 2024 19% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Richard M Gordon Iv
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $21k → $89k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE’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
ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 73% · 2020 46% · 2021 49% · 2022 45% · 2023 56% — 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
44% of ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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.
Government funding ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Musicopia Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: 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 ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE?
- ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $713,665 to it, the largest being DREAMS R US FOUNDATION ($313,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $713,665 in grants to ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE?
- DREAMS R US FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $313,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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