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BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC

BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 324 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,603,394 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($9,260,330). 202 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$41M
Revenue FY2024
324
Funders on record
$57M
Grants received
$32M
Net assets
202/324 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 94 funders to 128 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56M) Expenses 100 ($45M) Net assets 100 ($44M)2018 Revenue 93 ($52M) Expenses 108 ($49M) Net assets 102 ($44M)2019 Revenue 84 ($47M) Expenses 109 ($49M) Net assets 105 ($46M)2020 Revenue 50 ($28M) Expenses 66 ($30M) Net assets 106 ($47M)2021 Revenue 101 ($56M) Expenses 65 ($29M) Net assets 174 ($76M)2022 Revenue 67 ($37M) Expenses 103 ($46M) Net assets 138 ($60M)2023 Revenue 64 ($36M) Expenses 123 ($55M) Net assets 100 ($44M)2024 Revenue 73 ($41M) Expenses 122 ($55M) Net assets 72 ($32M)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (122)Net assets (72)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 28% · 2022 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

49% of BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11M
17
$3.2M
18
$1.8M
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$1.7M
20
$27M
21
$8.8M
22
$19M
23
$14M
24
1.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 94 funders to 128 funders, grant income rose $5.4M → $6.3M.

35 of 324 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)29% 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 THEATRE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 324 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 THEATRE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

31% 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 THEATRE FOUNDATION INC.

16%
largest funder
30%
top three
~19
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 22% · 2019 12% · 2020 14% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 16%growing more concentrated.

“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

38% of BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 THEATRE FOUNDATION INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 26 states in all.

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NH
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IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.

03Its place in the field

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 324 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $425k on record.

Federal$425k
grants $425kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$425k

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 THEATRE FOUNDATION 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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 5%

Governance

39
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 9 states

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION 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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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 THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 324 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,603,394 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($9,260,330). 202 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 324 organizations giving $56,603,394 in grants to BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC, 202 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,260,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BALLET THEATRE 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.

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 324funders 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