South Carolina · Nonprofit
BALLET SPARTANBURG INC
BALLET SPARTANBURG INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,550 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($164,580). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $562k
- Net assets
- $958k
What Ballet Spartanburg Inc does
Mission
Ballet spartanburg enriches, educates and inspires lives through presenting the only professional ballet productions in the community. These productions include dancers from ballet spartanburg's professional company, dancers from the center for dance education and guest artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ballet spartanburg enriches, educates and inspires lives through presenting the highest of quality ballet productions. These productions include dancers from ballet spartanburg's professional company, dancers from the center for dance education and guest artists.
$621,110 spent$546,255 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe center for dance education is an instructional center committed to providing the highest quality dance education in a non-competitive atmosphere.two divisions are taught: classical and recreational. The mission of the cfde is a collective effort to create a pleasant and supportive atmosphere for artistic excellence through dance education. The center instructs approximately 350 students from spartanburg and approximately 37 different counties. Dance classes are taught to ages 3 to adult. Ballet, ballroom, boys only classes, contemporary, creative, irish step, lyrical, pointe/pre-pointe, stretch & strenghten, tap and jazz, tumbling, summer camps, summer workshops and intenstives.
$173,305 spent21% of program spendingIt is our mission to continue educating and inspiring students and adults in spartanburg and surrounding areas. Ballet spartanburg's education and community outreach performs in over 28 outreach sites and impacts over 30,000 annually. Outreach programs include: lecture/demonstrations for schools; ballet spartanburg city dance, a summer and after school program, teaches dance for at-risk, inner city youth: school residencies; in and after school dance performances in partnership with the chapman cultural center's muse machine program; performances in nursing homes, hospitals and retirement centers; performances at community events, festivals and public events; free performances of peter and the wolf for all 5k-4th graders in spartanburg co. Schools; scholarship programs; dance, parkinson's dance and movement class, west african community dance class.
$37,392 spent4% of program spendingBallet spartanburg enriches, educates and inspires lives through presenting the highest of quality ballet productions. These productions include dancers from ballet spartanburg's professional company, dancers from the center for dance education and guest artists.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $831,807.
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 2024 to 2025, from $981k to $1.2M (+24%).
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 (63% 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
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 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $87k.
4 of 17 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.
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 29% 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; 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
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. $229k 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.
Against its field
BALLET SPARTANBURG 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
Organizations like BALLET SPARTANBURG 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 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
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALLET SPARTANBURG INC?
- BALLET SPARTANBURG INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,550 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 17 organizations giving $561,550 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.
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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 17 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