Illinois · Nonprofit
BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP
BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,429 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($353,502). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $468k
- Net assets
- $-63656
What Ballet Five Eight Nfp does
Mission
Ballet 5:8 continued to advance its mission of sparking conversation on life, faith, and human dignity through innovative storytelling and world- class dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ballet 5:8 employed 30 professional dancers and served more than 500 students annually through the school of ballet 5:8, providing training, mentorship, and career development for aspiring artists. The company reached thousands of audience members across illinois through live performances, partnerships, and educational outreach. Key initiatives included the world premiere of la llorona, a new ballet exploring postpartum depression and maternal mental health. The project was developed in partnership with the national museum of mexican art and the postpartum depression alliance of illinois, and included community workshops with the raices storytelling coalition, where latina mothers shared lived experiences to promote healing and awareness. Ballet 5:8 also forged a landmark collaboration with the kehrein center for the arts in chicagos austin neighborhood, bringing ballet to the venue for the first time. This performance celebrated the contributions of latina and black women in the arts and featured choreography by artistic director julianna rubio slager, guest artist rachel hutsell of new york city ballet, and spoken word artist quina aragon. Through these programs, ballet 5:8…
$614,979 spent$564,562 earned by the program63% of program spendingProfessional company perormances for over 15,000 guests.
$361,033 spent$224,450 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $976,012.
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 2024 to 2025, from $257k to $701k (+173%).
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 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP’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. 4 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 broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $102k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FIVE EIGHT NFP’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 FIVE EIGHT NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FIVE EIGHT NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 98% · 2021 90% · 2022 99% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $468k 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 FIVE EIGHT NFP has grown faster 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
Government funding BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$25k
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 FIVE EIGHT NFP
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP: 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 FIVE EIGHT NFP?
- BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,429 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($353,502). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $468,429 in grants to BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $353,502 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET FIVE EIGHT NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 7 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