Minnesota · Nonprofit
BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT
BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $281,089 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($185,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $217k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $281k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Black Label Movement does
Mission
Black label is a minnesota dance company that makes wildly physical, naturally virtuosic, intellectually and emotionally engaging movement driven art and embodied activities that examine and engage the human condition to inspire vivid lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Madco commission- st. Louis contemporary company commissions carl to create a new work for their spring show. Mover mirabai miller and carl travel to create with the company in st. Louis for two weeks. Swede hollow ghost sonata project - performances for three weekends in downtown st. Paul. Collaboration with sod house theater bringing together actors and dancers for a walking tour creating a magical and personal immersive experience for the audience. Bodystorming - physical sciences - oncology networks annual meeting. Full day-long bodystorming workshops with the scientists. Performed hit, a modest proposal, and morituri te salutant. Hosted a bodystorming systems workshop with umn president joan gabel.tour to gainesville florida - full company tour to perform at the phillips center for the performing arts and teach at the university of florida. Full evening performance and a student matinee as well as multiple workshops led for students at the university of florida and santa fe college. In this house - living light project - first installment of the living light project - an ongoing collaboration between sound and media artist and longtime Black Label Movement collaborator greg…
$55,706 spent$34,081 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,706.
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 2017 to 2018, from $78k to $0 (−100%).
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.
49% of BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT’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. 2 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $65k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT’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 LABEL MOVEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 LABEL MOVEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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
84% of BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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.
Against its field
BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT: 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 LABEL MOVEMENT?
- BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $281,089 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($185,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $281,089 in grants to BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK LABEL MOVEMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 5 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