Virginia · Nonprofit
BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE
BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,047 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($285,648). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $318k
- Net assets
- $324k
What Balletnova Center for Dance does
Mission
At Balletnova Center for Dance our mission is to provide a center of dance excellence in northern virginia, nurturing and training dancers of all ages, and offering superb community performances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Balletnova offers a wide variety of dance instruction to people of all ages and performs outreach in the community through performances, open houses, classes, free tickets and workshops. The pre-professional program had a robust conservatory division, the highest paying program for the school in fiscal year 2025.
$1,134,830 spent$1,225,157 earned by the program83% of program spendingPatrons come to see our performances because of the high quality and relatively low-ticket prices, which allows them to bring their whole family. The company produces two major public performances each year: the nutcracker and the spring performance.
$236,952 spent$241,793 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,371,782.
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.
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 $834k to $3.0M (+264%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 4% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $38k → $35k.
3 of 7 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 BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE’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
BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Organizations like BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE: 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 BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE?
- BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,047 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($285,648). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $318,047 in grants to BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $285,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 7 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