Oklahoma · Nonprofit
BALLET OKLAHOMA INC
BALLET OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,216,054 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($2,765,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Ballet Oklahoma Inc does
Mission
Okc ballet promotes the art of dance by supporting a professional company and its productions, operating a school of ballet for dance artists, children, and novice adults, and providing community engagement activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since its founding in 1969, oklahoma city ballet has been the city's professional ballet company, boasting talented dancers from around the world. As the resident dance company of the civic center music hall, the company produces four main-stage productions per season in oklahoma city in addition to touring across oklahoma and surrounding states. Over 30,000 audience members are moved by the oklahoma city ballet's artists and world-class performances each year.
$3,980,512 spent$2,313,815 earned by the program69% of program spendingOklahoma city ballet offers dance classes for all ages and skill levels. Eight hundred students of all ages improve their dance technique through the yvonne chouteau school. Oklahoma city ballet also offers multiple community engagement programs to encourage artistry and athleticism in students across the state. Over 10,000 oklahomans enjoy the free dance classes and community performances.
$1,766,282 spent$1,412,062 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,746,794.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $9.8M to $11M (+15%).
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 0% · 2021 15% · 2022 24% · 2023 16% · 2024 11% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of BALLET OKLAHOMA INC’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 7 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
Jo Lynne Jones
Executive director
Board chair
Jon Fisher
Governance chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $78k → $72k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BALLET OKLAHOMA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BALLET OKLAHOMA 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 OKLAHOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 OKLAHOMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 99% · 2022 50% · 2023 35% — 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
40% of BALLET OKLAHOMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
92% of BALLET OKLAHOMA 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 $257k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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 OKLAHOMA INC has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BALLET OKLAHOMA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $279k on record — $10k federal, $269k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$186k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$83k
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 OKLAHOMA 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLET OKLAHOMA INC: 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 OKLAHOMA INC?
- BALLET OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,216,054 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($2,765,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BALLET OKLAHOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,216,054 in grants to BALLET OKLAHOMA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET OKLAHOMA INC?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,765,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET OKLAHOMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 19 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