Rhode Island · Nonprofit
BALLET RI
BALLET RI (Rhode Island) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,890 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($175,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $686k
What Ballet Ri does
Mission
Our mission is to thrill and move our audiences, dancers, choreographers, supporters and staff with art and discipline. Our vision is to continuously increase in passion and artistic excellence and strength, acheiving national and international recognition as a creative force in dance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During the 2024-2025 season, Ballet Ri produced a full season of performances at four venues: the vets, woodman center, the united theatre in westerly, and its own black box theater. The performances demonstrated the company's ability to showcase contemporary and classical works with equitable brilliance. Programming ranged from mixed repertory shows like "art and literature", "made on hope", and "ballet meets the beatles", which featured a range of classical, neoclassical and contemporary works, a ballet for young audiences "peter and the wolf", and a traditional holiday offerings of "the nutcracker". The company was comprised of 16 company dancers, 13 apprentices, 16 trainees, and four artistic staff who collaboratively rehearse and perform september through may. Ballet Ri continued to expand in scope and reach, connecting with greater audiences throughout the state of rhode island and beyond.
$1,522,885 spent$1,347,157 earned by the program77% of program spending`during the 2024-2025 academic year, school of Ballet Ri continued offering high quality and in-depth experiences in the art form of ballet. The school continued offering its professional trainee program, ensuring professional development opportunities both artistically, pedagogically, and in arts management practices. Students of the school had the opportunity to participate in competition ensemble, nextgen choreographic workshop, and the culmination year-end performance. The school's transformational providance program, which commenced in october 2021, continued to offer programming to multiple schools in ri. The program was a great success, offering out-of-school time learning across six public schools, with additional weekly classes held at Ballet Ri studios. These advancing students were provided with transportation, tuition support, snacks, and supplies and materials necessary to continue their dance education.
$463,981 spent$575,329 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,986,866.
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 $655k to $1.4M (+121%).
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 4% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 59% · 2022 22% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of BALLET RI’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $26k → $237k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 RI’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 RI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 RI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 34% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 21% — 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
62% of BALLET RI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
BALLET RI draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $458k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 RI's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BALLET RI
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 Rhode Island
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
97%
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 RI: 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 RI?
- BALLET RI (Rhode Island) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,890 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($175,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET RI have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,119,890 in grants to BALLET RI, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET RI?
- RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET RI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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