California · Nonprofit
BACKHAUSDANCE
BACKHAUSDANCE (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,980 to it, the largest being ZION CHARITY FOUNDATION ($44,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $513k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Backhausdance does
Mission
Backhausdance is committed to educating the community about the relevance and vitality of concert dance, both as an art form and as a tool for learning. The creation and perfection of dance engages all learning modalities and encourages the integration of body and mind.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performance: Backhausdance creates and performs original danceworks for diverse audiences across a wide spectrum of ages and demographics. The conany's repertory offers an eclectic an dynamic vocabulary with a wonderful sense of fluidity and strength. Featuring a diverse body of work that is innovative and artistic, Backhausdance has perforned extensively nationwide as well as internationally. The company also offers concert pieces with a focus on younger audiences that incorporates a master class workshop component.
$74,411 spent$41,854 earned by the program16% of program spendingEducational outreach: as a member of the arts teach artist roster and part of the segerstrom center for the arts education and community programs, Backhausdance serves thousands of public and private school children throughout orange and san bernadino counties. Backhausdance is also part of the mccallum theatre institute aesthetic education program. Through the physicaity of contemporary modern dance, Backhausdance facilitates creative experiences that explore physical science concepts based on grade-specific standards. Workshops engage students in group and individual activities challenging their balance, rhythm, coordination, spatia awareness and listening skills.
$181,378 spent$101,822 earned by the program39% of program spendingSummer intensive: a life-changing experience for pre-professional and professional dancers, the company hosts annual summer intensives at chapman university. Backhaudance is dedicated to making this powerful program accessible to the dance community and provides scholarships for nearly half of the more than 106 nationwide participants who travel to southern california each summer.
$209,282 spent$117,002 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $465,071.
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 $171k to $279k (+63%).
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 5% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 4% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of BACKHAUSDANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $12k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 BACKHAUSDANCE’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
BACKHAUSDANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 97% · 2022 92% · 2023 50% — 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
0% of BACKHAUSDANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
100% of BACKHAUSDANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BACKHAUSDANCE has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BACKHAUSDANCE
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
80% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACKHAUSDANCE: 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 BACKHAUSDANCE?
- BACKHAUSDANCE (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,980 to it, the largest being ZION CHARITY FOUNDATION ($44,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKHAUSDANCE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $144,980 in grants to BACKHAUSDANCE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKHAUSDANCE?
- ZION CHARITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKHAUSDANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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