California · Nonprofit
BODY TRAFFIC
BODY TRAFFIC (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,966,996 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($365,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $99k
What Body Traffic does
Mission
Bodytraffic serves los angeles through dance performance and education programs that embody the city's energy, international heritage, and spirit of community. We strive to meet the city's hunger for meaningful artistic experiences by presenting dance at the highest aesthetic standards. In this work, our artists and audiences enter a collaborative dialogue of creation-seeking deeper connection to our shared humanity, nurturing empathy, and fostering authentic self-discovery and expression. Each year, bodytraffic extends this impact nationwide, reaching communities across the country with performances and programs that make dance a source of connection and belonging.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bodytraffic conducted dance performances and dance workshops with master teachers for the purposes of educating the public about subjects useful to individuals and beneficial to the community.
$1,752,033 spent$698,698 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,752,033.
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 2024 to 2025, from $62k to $305k (+393%).
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: 2020 19% · 2021 66% · 2022 6% · 2024 11% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of BODY TRAFFIC’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. 4 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
Lucinda Gould April-Oct
Interim executive director
Board chair
Maia Wapnick
Board chair (from december 2024)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $20k → $198k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 BODY TRAFFIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
BODY TRAFFIC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 41% · 2019 33% · 2020 52% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 38% — 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
58% of BODY TRAFFIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
80% of BODY TRAFFIC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $332k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BODY TRAFFIC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BODY TRAFFIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
- Department of State$12k
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 BODY TRAFFIC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 BODY TRAFFIC: 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 BODY TRAFFIC?
- BODY TRAFFIC (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,966,996 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($365,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BODY TRAFFIC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,966,996 in grants to BODY TRAFFIC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BODY TRAFFIC?
- PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BODY TRAFFIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 39 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