South Carolina · Nonprofit
BALLET SPARTANBURG INC
BALLET SPARTANBURG INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,250 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($164,580). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BALLET SPARTANBURG INC has grown faster than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Piedmont Incshared funderslocal
- Danceusaportfolio match
- Jerome Robbins Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 5% · 2023 20% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of BALLET SPARTANBURG INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $87k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $480k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chapman Cultural Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BALLET SPARTANBURG INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BALLET SPARTANBURG 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 SPARTANBURG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% 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 SPARTANBURG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 88% · 2019 41% · 2020 39% · 2021 29% · 2022 45% · 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
70% of BALLET SPARTANBURG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
94% of BALLET SPARTANBURG INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Piedmont Incshared funderslocalSC · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Danceusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerome Robbins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harkness Foundation for Dance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Princess Grace Foundation - USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid Atlantic Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barnet Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BALLET SPARTANBURG INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLET SPARTANBURG 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BALLET SPARTANBURG INC?
- BALLET SPARTANBURG INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,250 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($164,580). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET SPARTANBURG INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $550,250 in grants to BALLET SPARTANBURG INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET SPARTANBURG INC?
- Spartanburg County Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $164,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET SPARTANBURG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing