Washington · Nonprofit
BURLYCON
BURLYCON (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,899 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $162k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Burlycon does
Mission
BurlyCon is a community-oriented, professional growth and educational organization for burlesque performers, fans, and aficionados. We conduct educational events to preserve, promote, and advance burlesque as a theatrical art form. We offer classes, workshops, panels, and other educational offerings that further professional skill and development. We are committed to supporting personal transformation through creative artistic expression in the burlesque arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2025, BurlyCon Annual Convention convened hundreds of artists, educators, and performers from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe in SeaTac, Washington, reinforcing its role as the premier professional development event for the burlesque arts community. The convention offered over 50 workshops and educational sessions spanning critical disciplines including business management, performance technique, media literacy, costume design and construction, and artistic development, equipping participants with the tools and knowledge to sustain viable careers in the performing arts. BurlyCon serves as a vital hub for an underserved segment of the arts community, providing access to professional training and peer mentorship that would otherwise be unavailable to independent artists and small performance companies. By bringing together leading practitioners and emerging talent under one roof, the convention fosters cross-cultural exchange, supports the preservation and evolution of a historic American art form, and strengthens the economic resilience of its participants. Beyond its educational impact, the 2025 convention generated meaningful economic benefit for the…
$90,765 spentof which $53,700 as grants98% of program spendingIn 2025, BurlyCon proudly continued its partnership with the Burlesque Hall of Fame by serving as the official educational arm of the organization's Finishing School programming. This collaboration brought together a distinguished roster of participants, including legendary figures from burlesque's golden era, acclaimed new-burlesque performers, and academic scholars, to deliver and engage in specialized class programming rooted in the art form's rich history. The Finishing School represents a unique intersection of living history and contemporary practice, offering students direct access to knowledge and techniques passed down from the originators of the craft. By facilitating this programming, BurlyCon plays an essential role in preserving burlesque heritage, documenting its cultural legacy, and ensuring its traditions are transmitted to the next generation of performers and educators.
$1,702 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,467.
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 $9k to $71k (+668%).
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.
58% of BURLYCON’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dawn Crandell
Executive Director
Board chair
Danielle Barnett
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $197 → $25k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BURLYCON’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
BURLYCON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 BURLYCON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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 BURLYCON's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $899 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BURLYCON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 BURLYCON
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 BURLYCON: 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 BURLYCON?
- BURLYCON (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,899 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURLYCON have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $75,899 in grants to BURLYCON, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURLYCON?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURLYCON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2 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