California · Nonprofit
CONTRA-TIEMPO
CONTRA-TIEMPO (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,195,734 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $550k
What Contra-Tiempo does
Mission
Contra-tiempo is a bold, multilingual los angeles-based activist dance theater company creating physically intense and politically astute performance work that moves audience to imagine what is possible. We create a new physical, visual and sonic vocabulary that collages salsa, afro-cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theater, compelling text, and original music to bring dynamic multi-modal experiences to the concert stage. While our performances are consistently electrifying, what sets the company apart most is our unique relationship to our own community. Contra-tiempo takes an uncompromisingly radical approach to the ways in which artists function within communities and create their work. We intentionally engage diverse audiences, cultivate dancer leaders, and center stories not traditionally heard on the concert stage, using our engagement process to inform and continuously re-fuel our creative process, and vice-versa. Much like the communities we reach, contra-tiempo is it
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School and community program fees are for the performing arts and dance education programs, school instruction on standards-based performing arts curriculum for k-12, usually 10-15 weeks of instruction. In addition to a monthly los angeles based community class, master classes and workshops are held all over the country. Contra-Tiempo worked with over 6,000 young people this year and has been invited to present this innovative model of dance education to other professionals in the field. Each year, Contra-Tiempo offers a summer dance intensive program for young people, teens and young adults. This program has been a place where new company members have also emerged.
$336,554 spent$187,714 earned by the program81% of program spendingDance performances are held throughout los angeles county and nationally. The artistic director, resource director, and programming + rehearsal director, and president of the board of directors have all served on various arts advocacy panels, leadership institutes and professional conferences, representing Contra-Tiempo as a leading force in impacting the field of dance and the performing arts. Contra-Tiempo's arts education programs have grown exponentially and have expanded to over 30 schools in los angeles through new partnerships.
$81,140 spent$45,256 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $417,694.
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 $431k to $932k (+116%).
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 19% · 2020 40% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of CONTRA-TIEMPO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $129k → $798k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CONTRA-TIEMPO’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
CONTRA-TIEMPO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 46% · 2020 82% · 2021 50% · 2022 94% · 2023 75% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of CONTRA-TIEMPO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
CONTRA-TIEMPO draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CONTRA-TIEMPO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Government funding CONTRA-TIEMPO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $89k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
- Department of State$29k
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 CONTRA-TIEMPO
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 CONTRA-TIEMPO: 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 CONTRA-TIEMPO?
- CONTRA-TIEMPO (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,195,734 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONTRA-TIEMPO have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,195,734 in grants to CONTRA-TIEMPO, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONTRA-TIEMPO?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONTRA-TIEMPO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 16 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