Arizona · Nonprofit
BALLET ARIZONA
BALLET ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,546,048 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($3,430,500). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Ballet Arizona does
Mission
To ignite the human spirit through the magic of dance. Ballet Arizona's vision is ballet for everyone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ballet performances that contribute to the development and maintenance of a professionally recognized resident ballet company. The organization presented about 73 performances with 74,112 attendees in the state of arizona during its regular season.
$6,354,274 spent$5,327,068 earned by the program76% of program spendingThe school of Ballet Arizona is the organization's official training institute. Over 400 students ages four and older participated in beginner through advanced level programs, including pre-professional and recreational offerings. During this fiscal year, students took about 5,100 classes offered alongside professional dancers and artistic staff of Ballet Arizona. A resource of committed and inspired teachers generated an imaginative, creative and productive response. The school of Ballet Arizona students are able to share their love of dancing in community events that contribute to the introduction of the arts to young people throughout metropolitan phoenix.
$1,526,807 spent$1,209,770 earned by the program18% of program spendingBallet Arizona has served arizona communities based on the belief that the magic of a single performance can change lives. Ballet Arizona offers a wide variety of community engagement programs that seek to educate communities about this transformative power of dance. Through our work we strive to empower individuals to engage more deeply with the art form and eliminate the barriers to participation that prevent people from experiencing dance. Ballet Arizona offers 15 programs during its regular season including field trip opportunities, community presentations, after school residencies, and creative aging programs.
$425,746 spent$138,920 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,306,827.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $16M (+41%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 23% · 2023 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of BALLET ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% 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.
Chief executive
Jami Kozemczak
Executive director
Board chair
Curtiss Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $243k → $1.5M.
14 of 74 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 BALLET ARIZONA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
BALLET ARIZONA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
28% 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 BALLET ARIZONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 25% · 2019 23% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2022 73% · 2023 33% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of BALLET ARIZONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
93% of BALLET ARIZONA's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
BALLET ARIZONA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BALLET ARIZONA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $240k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$240k
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 BALLET ARIZONA
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLET ARIZONA: 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 BALLET ARIZONA?
- BALLET ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,546,048 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($3,430,500). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $12,546,048 in grants to BALLET ARIZONA, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET ARIZONA?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,430,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET ARIZONA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 74 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