Georgia · Nonprofit
BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY
BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,897,190 to it, the largest being CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($760,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $639k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $291k
What Ballethnic Dance Company does
Mission
Ballethnic Dance Company is a classically trained, culturally diverse company. Ballethnic's goal is to inform, educate, and entertain through the art of dance by lecturing, teaching and performing. The mission of Ballethnic is to inform, educate and entertain through dance, using dance as a vehicle to impact the community by offering programs that act as a catalyst for social change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the year ended June 30, 2025, Ballethnic Dance Company, Inc. operated the following programs:BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY: The professional company presented a dynamic season of performances and community engagement activities. Its hallmark production, Urban Nutcracker, was performed at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College. Preparation included auditions, workshops, and parent engagement.The company also produced All the Way Live II at Porter Sanford III Performing Arts & Community Center.Major engagements included IABD Conference (Pittsburgh), Savannah Black Heritage Festival (2,000+ attendees), East Athens Educational Dance Center, North Carolina lecture demonstrations, Inman Park Festival, and Rite of Sankofa at the University of Georgia. The company also participated in Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir and a Wayne State residency.Cheney Street was officially renamed Ballethnic Way on June 29, 2024, marking a major milestone.BALLETHNIC ACADEMY OF DANCE The Academy provided instruction for ages 3 through adult, delivering approximately 1,549 classes. Programming included foundational training, pre-professional development, internships, and…
$488,596 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $488,596.
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 $215k to $602k (+179%).
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 14% · 2018 5% · 2019 9% · 2020 5% · 2021 17% · 2022 4% · 2023 13% · 2024 15% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY’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. 5 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 7 funders, grant income fell $390k → $289k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY’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
BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 50% · 2019 85% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 85% · 2023 41% — 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
38% of BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY'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
95% of BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $616k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY?
- BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,897,190 to it, the largest being CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($760,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,897,190 in grants to BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY?
- CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $760,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 13 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