Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BALLETX
BALLETX (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,233,760 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,496,531). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Balletx does
Mission
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performance series and world premiere commissions: Balletx's annual performance season in philadelphia features five series that showcase new collaborations, large-scale evening-length works, original scores, guest artists, and live music. The 2024-2025 season included: fall series, with a world premiere by marguerite donlon; Balletx in bryn mawr, with world premieres by keelan whitmore and Balletx dancers; winter series, with world premieres by gregory dawson and caili quan; festival at the mann, with a full-length world premiere by jennifer archibald; and summer series, with world premieres by amy hall garner and noelle kayser. Performances reached audiences in excess of 15,000.
$809,542 spent$415,801 earned by the program20% of program spendingTouring: in addition to philadelphia main stage performances, Balletx participates in a growing number of national and international tours. In the 2024-2025 season, the company toured to the following venues: the joyce theater (new york, ny), the kennedy center (washington, dc), harris theater (chicago, il), laguna dance festival (laguna, ca), lafon performing arts center (luling, la), texas a&m university (college station, tx), longwood gardens (kennett square, pa), ballet nights (london, uk), festival des arts de saint-sauveur (canada), and vail dance festival (vail, co). Tour performances reached audiences in excess of 13,000.
$433,045 spent$500,406 earned by the program10% of program spendingDance exchange: dance exchange is Balletx's in-school education program that introduces the basics of dance to elementary school students in a fun and structured environment that sparks curiosity and creativity through movement exercises, choreography, and live performance, while strengthening important life skills such as self-confidence, focus, teamwork, and determination. In the 2024-2025 season, dance exchange engaged seven dance teaching artists and three live musicians to work with 442 3rd and 4th grade students in 18 classrooms at five philadelphia public schools. To increase the reach of dance exchange, in 2018 Balletx launched the dance exchange dream team, a full-scholarship program that invites exceptional students from our partner schools to self-select to attend weekly after-school classes and perform alongside the Balletx company at pop up performances throughout the city. In the 2024-2025 school year, Balletx hosted 34 dream team members, who performed alongside the Balletx dancers at four public performances.
$213,984 spent$223,183 earned by the program5% of program spendingPop up performances: Balletx brings its dancers into philadelphia neighborhoods for multiple free pop up performances each season. These performances introduce dance to new audiences around the city and encourage community engagement and new experiences for citizens who may have never seen ballet. In the 2024-2025 season, Balletx performed pop ups jenkintown festival of the arts, abington library, the philadelphia fall arts festival at the kimmel center, waverly heights, beaumont, and dilworth park at city hall.festival at the mann: Balletx's platform as resident dance company of the mann center for the performing arts provides an opportunity to present contemporary ballet in a way that is accessible and inclusive, inviting new audiences to engage with the art form. In the 2024-2025 season, the festival included pre-show performances by local young artists, and the company worked with 70 service organizations to donate over 3,400 free tickets to community members throughout philadelphia.choreographic fellowship: launched in 2016, Balletx's choreographic fellowship unites one emerging artist each season with a distinguished choreographer who serves as a mentor as they both create…
$2,677,320 spent$88,327 earned by the program65% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,133,891.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.9M to $14M (+138%).
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: 2019 1% · 2021 0% · 2023 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of BALLETX’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Christine Cox
Artistic & executive director
Board chair
Jan P Boswinkel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $131k → $1.1M.
16 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 BALLETX’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
BALLETX has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
25% 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 BALLETX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 25% · 2019 22% · 2020 52% · 2021 23% · 2022 31% · 2023 23% — 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
48% of BALLETX's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
65% of BALLETX's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
BALLETX has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BALLETX receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
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 BALLETX
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLETX: 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 BALLETX?
- BALLETX (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,233,760 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,496,531). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLETX have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $7,233,760 in grants to BALLETX, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLETX?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,496,531 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLETX find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 90 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing