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BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET

BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,035 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($17,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$472k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$162k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET does

Mission

Production of ballet performances

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The sole program activity is to provide ballet performances and promote the art of ballet in the community

    $288,735 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $288,735.

02The 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 ($280k) Expenses 100 ($277k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2018 Revenue 110 ($309k) Expenses 105 ($290k) Net assets 179 ($41k)2019 Revenue 143 ($401k) Expenses 178 ($494k) Net assets -229 ($-52573)2020 Revenue 112 ($313k) Expenses 93 ($257k) Net assets 19 ($4k)2021 Revenue 9 ($25k) Expenses 24 ($65k) Net assets -156 ($-35909)2022 Revenue 116 ($325k) Expenses 100 ($278k) Net assets 47 ($11k)2023 Revenue 118 ($330k) Expenses 118 ($327k) Net assets 59 ($14k)2024 Revenue 154 ($432k) Expenses 127 ($352k) Net assets 409 ($94k)2025 Revenue 169 ($472k) Expenses 146 ($404k) Net assets 707 ($162k)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (146)Net assets (707)Peer revenue range

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 $16k to $96k (+485%).

$55k
$65k
$21k
$6k
$16k
$13k
$16k
$96k
$171k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 14% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$18k
’18
−$94k
’19
$57k
’20
−$40k
’21
$47k
’22
$3k
’23
$80k
’24
$69k
’25
4.9
months of
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.

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Listed14131091181212
Joined·+2+0+0·+0+4+0
No longer listed·331·300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $32 → $10k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
3
2
2

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET’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

BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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.

Where its funders are

67% of BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 24%Fundraising 4%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET?
BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,035 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($17,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,035 in grants to BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $17,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BERKSHIRE CIVIC BALLET INC dba ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 3 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