Mississippi · Nonprofit
BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC
BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,281 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($114,141). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $676k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $559k
What Ballet Mississippi Inc does
Mission
Ballet mississippi continues to pursue its goals of providing quality performances, developing artistic and technical proficiency of students, and promoting an appreciation of dance through education, outreach, and audience development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ballet mississippi performances:approximately 3,000 patrons attended ballet mississippi performances during the year ending6/30/2025. In december, ballet mississippi presented the nutcracker, which offered people throughout the southeast the opportunity to celebrate the holiday season through the enjoyment and appreciation of this ballet classic. The production featured guest artists marcus alford in the role of drosselmeier and dancers from the memphis ballet. In december of 2023, ballet mississippi was so excited to resume school performances that had been suspended because of covid-19 issues. Ballet mississippi hosted well over a thousand students from all over mississippi for a matinee of the production of the nutcracker at thalia mara hall. Unfortunately, in december of 2024 ballet mississippi had to pause these school performances again due to closing of thalia mara hall in downtown jackson. Ballet mississippi continues to present a year-end performance for all students in the ballet mississippi school. This performance has been an annual event every may and is now at the jackson preparatory school's fortenberry theatre.
$198,535 spent$165,125 earned by the program44% of program spendingBallet mississippi school:ballet mississippi off ers classes and performing opportunities for students of all ages, from age three toadult. The school's focus is classical ballet and students complement their training with classes in diff erentstyles of dance throughout the year. All students participate in the year-end performance. The balletmississippi faculty instructed classes for approximately 150 students in summer classes led by guest artistsas well as ballet mississippi faculty. The ballet mississippi faculty is led by artistic director, david keary. David keary is a former member of the new york city ballet and was personally invited by georgebalanchine to join the new york city ballet. Ballet mississippi holds the distinction that itsexecutive/artistic director was a long time member of this prestigious company and is now trainingmississippi's children! The ballet mississippi school has continued to off er a two-week intensiveworkshop with faculty from all over the united states. Other workshops focus on the very young dancersthat train at ballet mississippi.
$245,291 spent$143,121 earned by the program55% of program spendingBallet mississippi outreach:ballet mississippi suspended its outreach program in the jackson public schools because of the lingeringissues of covid-19, lack of faculty and fi nances to pursue this goal. However, in 2023 to present balletmississippi extended its outreach to off er ballet classes at jackson preparatory school in flowood, ms, st.luke's united methodist church in jackson, ms and st. Anthony catholic school in madison, ms. Balletmississippi is working at redeveloping its outreach into the jackson public schools in the future.community partnerships served as an important vehicle to increase audience accessibility. Balletmississippi performed at blair e. Batson's children's hospital and the st. Andrew's episcopal school artson the green event. Other partnerships include: the jackson junior league's mistletoe marketplacewhere the ballet performed excerpts of the nutcracker for audiences, madison county library inmadison, ms, central mississippi's down syndrome buddy walk, fondren's annual holiday parade, andarts day at the capitol during mississippi's spring legislative session, just to name a few.
$3,967 spent$2,900 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $447,793.
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.
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 $362k to $2.0M (+441%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 18% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $31k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 MISSISSIPPI INC’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 MISSISSIPPI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 MISSISSIPPI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 60% · 2019 69% · 2020 87% · 2021 58% · 2022 37% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
69% of BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC'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 $72k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k 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.
Organizations like BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC
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In Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC?
- BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,281 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($114,141). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $230,281 in grants to BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $114,141 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 15 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