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CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC

CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,248 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($221,748). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$279k
Net assets
$1.3M
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Citydance Productions Inc does

Mission

Citydances mission is to transform lives and communities through dance. We pursue this mission through our three divisions citydance conservatory, citydance presents, and citydance studios.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Citydance conservatory the citydance conservatory is dedicated to developing the next generation of dance artists and innovators through professional training for students aged 9 to 19. Our students have achieved remarkable success, winning youth american grand prix yagp hope and grand prix awards at the new york city finals and receiving invitations to perform at yagps international galas. Graduates have gained acceptance to prestigious dance programs, including juilliard and gloria kaufman, and our alumni perform with renowned companies worldwide, such as the mark morris dance group, boston ballet, and lopera national de lyon and the royal ballet. Admission to the conservatory is through an audition process, evaluating each students potential, technical skills, and commitment to pursuing dance as a career. Continued on schedule o.

    $3,151,810 spent$3,305,684 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,151,810.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 122 ($3.9M) Expenses 166 ($3.5M) Net assets 138 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 118 ($3.7M) Expenses 187 ($3.9M) Net assets 120 ($1.3M)
202320242025
Revenue (118)Expenses (187)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

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 $3.0M to $5.7M (+93%).

$2.6M
$3.0M
$5.7M
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 4% · 2024 11% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’23
$403k
’24
−$197k
’25
1.1
months of
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

Alexandra Nowakowski

President CEO/secretary

Board chair

Kay Kendall

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed10109
Joined·+0+1
No longer listed·02
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Citydance Ensemble Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC’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

CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC.

79%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

94% of CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states.

MD
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $262k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.

Federal$50k
grants $50kcontracts $0
24
25
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$50k

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 CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

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Questions and answers

Who funds CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC?
CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,248 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($221,748). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $279,248 in grants to CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC?
ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $221,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITYDANCE PRODUCTIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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