Washington · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE
COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,142 to it, the largest being W Bruce Mary Louise Cook Foundation ($13,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $660k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $807k
What Columbia Dance Ensemble does
Mission
Columbia dance's mission is to present dance as a life-enhancing experience for our students and our community by setting high artistic standards in classical ballet education and performance, while creating a positive, nurturing and challenging environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School: columbia dance served 192 students, aged 3 through adult, by providing training in ballet and other dance forms. Columbia dance offered instruction for students with special needs as well as financial aid for families with financial difficulties, and provided outreach in public schools.
$376,870 spent$342,756 earned by the program84% of program spendingPerformances: columbia dance performed for over 5,000 community members and local public school children.
$69,965 spent$110,436 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $446,835.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $1.8M (+5%).
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 0% · 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 5 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $3k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE’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
COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE 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 COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE
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.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE: 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 COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE?
- COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,142 to it, the largest being W Bruce Mary Louise Cook Foundation ($13,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $48,142 in grants to COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE?
- W Bruce Mary Louise Cook Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $13,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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