North Carolina · Nonprofit
BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER
BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,797 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC ($159,497). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Black Box Dance Theater does
Mission
To celebrate dance through creating, teaching and performing works that interpret, influence and inspire those within our local and global communities as dance is one of the most natural connectors to our humanity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Public school dance performances/residencies/shows serving thousands of k- 12 and postsecondary students across north carolina; booked through local institutions and arts councils.
$37,935 spent38% of program spendingDance workshops for military, veterans, community and healing arts work engaging hundreds of people of all ages and abilities; booked through various institutions and arts councils across north carolina and the us.
$61,541 spent62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,476.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $63k to $28k (−55%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jessica Pope
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $26k.
From the IRS filings of BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER’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
BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
100% 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 BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER: 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 BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER?
- BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,797 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC ($159,497). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $180,797 in grants to BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER?
- UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $159,497 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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