Arizona · Nonprofit
BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION
BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $967,485 to it, the largest being CONNIE HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($601,223). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $967k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Ballet Arts Foundation does
Mission
Ballet tucson is dedicated to bringing iconic, world-class dance performances and rising star artists to tucson and to sharing explorative experiences that inspire hope and excitement in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ballet tucson was established in 1986 by mary beth cabana with the goal of creating a world-class professional ballet company and school in southern arizona. In the spring of 2022, margaret mullin, a tucson native, was named artistic director alongside chieko imada, ballet tucson's associate artistic director and resident choreographer. Ms. Mullin trained at the school of ballet tucson on a full scholarship before her fourteen-year career as a leading dancer and choreographer with pacific northwest ballet in seattle. Danielle and liang fu, accomplished dancers and teachers with a combined thirty-seven years of experience internationally, were named directors of the school of ballet tucson in the summer of 2022. The ballet tucson company brings five unique concerts to the stage annually that feature beloved classics and innovative new works by acclaimed choreographers, performed by professional dancers from around the world. Performances include three repertory seasons, consisting of four performances in each program (12 mixed repertory performances). The company also produces footprints at the fox, an opportunity for apprentices in the company to set ballets on apprentices for…
$1,083,535 spent$965,816 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,083,535.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $202k to $1.3M (+554%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 7% · 2021 20% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION’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. 1 of the last 8 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 narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $62k → $123k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ARTS FOUNDATION’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
BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 76% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 68% · 2022 92% · 2023 55% — 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
33% of BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 ARTS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Organizations like BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 ARTS FOUNDATION?
- BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $967,485 to it, the largest being CONNIE HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($601,223). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $967,485 in grants to BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION?
- CONNIE HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $601,223 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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