Ohio · Nonprofit
BALLET METROPOLITAN INC
BALLET METROPOLITAN INC (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,924,628 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($5,248,545). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Ballet Metropolitan Inc does
Mission
Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Professional company performances - balletmet is one of columbus's largest performing arts organizations and among the nation's top ballet companies. A resident company of 26 professional dancers performs an annual season of 60-90 performances, with a repertoire ranging from classical ballets to contemporary masterworks. The commission and performance of new works is a core priority and an essential organizational focus, and balletmet has commissioned the world's most highly sought after choreographers.continued on schedule oballetmet also supports emerging choreographers, including a number of its company dancers who have earned significant national awards for their work. Balletmet is a cultural ambassador for columbus, touring nationally and internationally, including twice by invitation at new york city's prestigious joyce theater. Columbus performance venues include the ohio and joann davidson theatres and the 225-seat performance space on balletmet's downtown campus.
$4,880,488 spent$2,734,435 earned by the program64% of program spendingDance academy classes - the balletmet dance academy offers a full curriculum for the serious and the recreational student, with a variety of classes for ages three to senior adult. Classes include ballet, pointe, modern, tap, jazz, flamenco, yoga and pilates. Youth students perform in an annual academy performance, with more advanced opportunities through performance ensembles and, by audition, in large-cast company productions. Intensive study options are available for exceptionally talented students, and a trainee program for senior high schoolers and high school graduates provides advanced training for a professional career. Continued on schedule othe annual summer intensive offers a five-week program for local and nationally auditioned students to build and refine dance skills, training with balletmet artists and faculty. The trainee and intensive programs often identify future balletmet dancers, and a number of trainees have graduated to dance with companies in the united states and abroad.
$2,355,886 spentof which $511,633 as grants$2,524,201 earned by the program31% of program spendingEducational programs consist of the following:dance instruction - arts, culture & humanities - dance-in-schools programs connect students, professional and teaching artists, and classroom educators through residencies, lecture demonstrations, professional development, and performance-related activities. In-school residencies integrate ohio department of education (ode) dance content standards. Moving into literacy, designed for students in grades 1 - 3, fuses dance and english language arts education to positively impact literacy and critical thinking. Continued on schedule oa second residency program is an early childhood initiative that prepares preschoolers for kindergarten by integrating movement with social, emotional and literacy skills. Students may also view a performance in their school with narration that explains dance. Workshops provide teacher training that integrates ode dance content standards with curriculum studies. Morning at the ballet is a fully staged theatre performance by balletmet that introduces students to dance as a performing art and enhances interdisciplinary learning with related classroom resource materials.cultural & ethnic awareness - arts, culture…
$388,333 spent$486,481 earned by the program5% of program spendingTouring and rentals.
$35,633 spent$193,849 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,660,340.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.6M to $12M (+22%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 18% · 2024 18% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of BALLET METROPOLITAN INC’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. 0 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
Sue Porter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.6M.
14 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 METROPOLITAN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 METROPOLITAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 METROPOLITAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 56% · 2019 39% · 2020 45% · 2021 33% · 2022 42% · 2023 50% — 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
56% of BALLET METROPOLITAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
91% of BALLET METROPOLITAN INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 METROPOLITAN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 METROPOLITAN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 METROPOLITAN INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Momentum - Dance in Schools LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC?
- BALLET METROPOLITAN INC (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,924,628 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($5,248,545). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET METROPOLITAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $12,924,628 in grants to BALLET METROPOLITAN INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET METROPOLITAN INC?
- GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $5,248,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET METROPOLITAN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 54 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