Kansas · Nonprofit
BALLET WICHITA INC
BALLET WICHITA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,376 to it, the largest being DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($47,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $481k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $-223839
What Ballet Wichita Inc does
Mission
Ballet wichita connects, inspires and enriches dancers, audiences, and community through dance, education and performance excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ballet wichita advances its mission to connect, inspire, and enrich communities through professional ballet performance, professional-standard progressive dance training, and meaningful community engagement. As kansass only professional ballet company, ballet wichita presents a dynamic annual season serving diverse audiences across the region. The season includes a full-length classical or contemporary production each fall, the cherished holiday production of the nutcracker, and a spring production that highlights the history, culture, and diverse voices of the wichita community. These performances uphold high artistic standards while ensuring accessibility and civic relevance. During the summer months, ballet wichita expands its regional impact through touring productions throughout kansas and neighboring states. These performances increasingly integrate literacy-centered themes and educational partnerships, using storytelling through movement to support youth development and strengthen connections between the arts and education. Through ballet wichita academy, the organization provides structured pre- professional training alongside inclusive community-based instruction for…
$450,155 spent$311,016 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $450,155.
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 2021 to 2022, from $30k to $492k (+1535%).
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 7% · 2021 51% · 2022 45% · 2023 5% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of BALLET WICHITA 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. 7 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 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $18k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 WICHITA 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 WICHITA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 39% · 2019 67% · 2020 63% · 2021 99% · 2022 50% · 2023 83% — 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
22% of BALLET WICHITA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 WICHITA INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 WICHITA INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BALLET WICHITA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
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 WICHITA 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 WICHITA 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 WICHITA INC?
- BALLET WICHITA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,376 to it, the largest being DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($47,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET WICHITA INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $127,376 in grants to BALLET WICHITA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET WICHITA INC?
- DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $47,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET WICHITA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 14 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