New York · Nonprofit
COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN
COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,580 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($190,140). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $483k
- Net assets
- $194k
What Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn does
Mission
A contemporary ballet dance acedemy dedicated to providing an excellent local alternative for professional and standard performance and dance instruction.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides serious classical ballet and modern dance training through its academy; offers workshops, residencies, and live performances for public schools as a department of education arts-in-education vendor; and creates original, high quality ballet productions that give young academy students the opportunity to dance alongside professional dancers.
$356,206 spent$194,858 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $356,206.
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 $192k to $363k (+89%).
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 18% · 2018 9% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 17% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN’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.
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
Sonia K Jones
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $31k → $38k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN’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
COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 99% · 2021 66% · 2022 46% · 2023 54% — 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
60% of COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
67% of COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN'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 $160k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $483k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN?
- COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,580 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($190,140). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $482,580 in grants to COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $190,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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