New York · Nonprofit
Bombazo Dance Co
Bombazo Dance Co (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,961 to it, the largest being THE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($102,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Bombazo Dance Co does
Mission
We are a drum and dance company,whose mission is to preserve,educate and showcase traditional Afro,Puerto Rican Bomba and Caribean. We combine those main ingredients and fusing them with contempory styles of dance
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We are a 501 c3 drum dance company, whose mission is to preserve, educate and showcase traditional afro, Puerto Rican and Afro Caribbean and traditional folkloic elements. We further combine those main ingredients and fusing them with classical, contempoary and social styles of dance. Thus, creating a new movement vocabulary while still preserving the authenticity of our culture. The word Bombazo signifies a Bomba jam. It is where the community gathers to celebrate life through its rhythms, song and dance. Our company members are professionals in their fields. They hail from different countries, such as Asian, European, Central and South America, from the Caribbean and African Diaspora. All are strong technical dancers, learning, sharing and performing Bomba.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2019 to 2020, from $31k to $134k (+325%).
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.
100% of Bombazo Dance Co’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Melody Capote
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $49k.
From the IRS filings of Bombazo Dance Co’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
Bombazo Dance Co leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Bombazo Dance Co.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 49% · 2022 51% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Bombazo Dance Co's grant income comes from New York 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.
Against its field
Bombazo Dance Co runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Bombazo Dance Co
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
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 Bombazo Dance Co: 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 Bombazo Dance Co?
- Bombazo Dance Co (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,961 to it, the largest being THE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($102,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bombazo Dance Co have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $191,961 in grants to Bombazo Dance Co, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bombazo Dance Co?
- THE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $102,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bombazo Dance Co find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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