Virginia · Nonprofit
Charlottesville Ballet
Charlottesville Ballet (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,067,353 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($655,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Charlottesville Ballet does
Mission
To elevate the art of dance through wellness, performance, education, and community outreach
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Charlottesville Ballet academy (cba), the official training school of cb, opened in july 2011 and is a non profit center for dance education serving over 700 students. Cba offers training in all dance genres for ages two through adult and offers performance opportunities for young dancers alongside the professional company. Cb moves is the community engagement component of Charlottesville Ballet that provides free programming for members of our community. "cb moves" includes 1) chance to dance, a program for grades k-5 that gives underserved children hands-on experience with the arts, 2) movement for parkinson's, free weekly dance classes for anyone with parkinson's disease or movement disorder and their care partners, 3) silver swans, free weekly dance classes for seniors, 4) once upon a ballet, free performance events throughout the community by our professional dancers, and 5) adaptive dance classes for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
$1,597,272 spent$1,304,381 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,597,272.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.1M (+83%).
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: 2017 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 17% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of Charlottesville Ballet’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $20k → $182k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Charlottesville Ballet’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
Charlottesville Ballet leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 67% · 2019 74% · 2020 78% · 2021 65% · 2022 79% · 2023 55% — 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
45% of Charlottesville Ballet's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
88% of Charlottesville Ballet's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Charlottesville Ballet is better cushioned than half 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
Organizations like Charlottesville Ballet
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Charlottesville Ballet: 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 Charlottesville Ballet?
- Charlottesville Ballet (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,067,353 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($655,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Charlottesville Ballet have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,067,353 in grants to Charlottesville Ballet, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Charlottesville Ballet?
- THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $655,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Charlottesville Ballet find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 24 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