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BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION

BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,333 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($106,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$449k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$183k
Net assets
$12M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Ballet Austin Foundation does

Mission

The foundation was established in 1998 to encourage public support of ballet austin and to receive, manage and invest contributions for the exclusive benefit of ballet austin.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide support to ballet austin.

    $377,376 spentof which $377,376 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $377,376.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($244k) Net assets 100 ($7.6M)2018 Revenue 7 ($244k) Expenses 104 ($254k) Net assets 105 ($7.9M)2019 Revenue 9 ($293k) Expenses 114 ($277k) Net assets 107 ($8.1M)2020 Revenue 21 ($679k) Expenses 129 ($314k) Net assets 117 ($8.8M)2021 Revenue 50 ($1.6M) Expenses 140 ($343k) Net assets 144 ($11M)2022 Revenue 9 ($306k) Expenses 161 ($393k) Net assets 127 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 8 ($252k) Expenses 156 ($381k) Net assets 134 ($10M)2024 Revenue 14 ($445k) Expenses 165 ($403k) Net assets 147 ($11M)2025 Revenue 14 ($449k) Expenses 175 ($426k) Net assets 157 ($12M)
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Revenue (14)Expenses (175)Net assets (157)Peer revenue range

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 $8.8M to $11M (+23%).

$7.6M
$7.9M
$8.1M
$8.8M
$11M
$9.6M
$10M
$11M
$12M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

22% of BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.0M
’17
−$10k
’18
$16k
’19
$365k
’20
$1.3M
’21
−$88k
’22
−$128k
’23
$41k
’24
$22k
’25

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.

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Listed999999999
Joined·+2+0+2+0+2+0+2+1
No longer listed·20202021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $9k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 AUSTIN 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 AUSTIN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 AUSTIN FOUNDATION.

58%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

86% of BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.

NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION's revenue fell 86% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Texas

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Ballet Austin Incorporated · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION?
BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,333 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($106,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $183,333 in grants to BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $106,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BALLET AUSTIN FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 5 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