New York · Nonprofit
BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC
BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,192,587 to it, the largest being LUESTHER T MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,390,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Ballet Tech Foundation Inc does
Mission
Ballet tech foundation, inc. Is committed to introducing new york city public school children to the beauty, integrity, and joy of dance. Annually, we provide the rigorous dance training necessary to fulfill and nurture students' intrinsic dance talents, all tuition free. We are developing the dancers and leaders of tomorrow by offering young people, who reflect the rich diversity of our city, a world class dance education and enrichment that encompasses a wide variety of genres of movement and choreography, alongside an excellent academic education in collaboration with the nyc department of education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the year ended 6/30/2025, ballet tech presented a one-week season in the spring of 2025. The season - at the joyce theater - was attended by 2,101 people. The school auditioned 6,304 students, worked with 90 cooperating public schools throughout new york city, and selected a total of 544 students. 360 beginners took introductory ballet classes for 6 weeks. 125 students in grades 4 through 8 attended an on-site new york city public school program created to provide them with a challenging academic curriculum alongside their intensive dance program. The academic program - which takes place at 890 broadway - is a collaboration between the organization and new york city public schools.
$4,707,326 spent$2,168,663 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,707,326.
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 2022 to 2023, from $31M to $33M (+5%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 14% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC’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. 0 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.
Chief executive
Maggie Christ
Executive director
Board chair
Jilian Cahan Gersten
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $477k → $235k.
5 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 TECH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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 TECH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 60% · 2019 62% · 2020 92% · 2021 73% · 2022 44% · 2023 26% — 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
64% of BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
90% of BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k 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 TECH FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $265k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$265k
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 TECH FOUNDATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
22%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Odette LLC · disregarded
- 890 Broadway Condominium · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC?
- BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,192,587 to it, the largest being LUESTHER T MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,390,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,192,587 in grants to BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC?
- LUESTHER T MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 37 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