Washington · Nonprofit
Creative Dance Center
Creative Dance Center (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,398 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($41,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $582k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $416k
What Creative Dance Center does
Mission
Connecting body and mind to transform lives through dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Creative Dance Center is known locally, nationally, and internationally for innovative teaching methods and the BrainDance. Inclusive programming for all ages and abilities includes Nurturing Baby, Caregiver/Toddler, Caregiver/Child, Early Childhood, Children and Teen, and Adult classes, including classes for seniors/elders, and Adaptive BrainDance for youth and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Classes include creative dance, modern, ballet, and hip hop. Summer programming included multi-arts camps and a Teen Intensive sharing culturally diverse dance forms. Educator/Community Workshops offered professional development and personal enrichment for adults. CDC began sharing free dance with Mary's Place in 2016 - Mary's Place provides shelter and helps women and families move out of homelessness into more stable situations. A CDC teaching artist brought dance to children in two Mary's Place locations as part of their Tots and Kids Clubs programming, which aims to reduce trauma and provide a safe place for children. Creative Dance Center is on the Community Arts Roster for the Creative Advantage, a partnership of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and Seattle…
$316,371 spentof which $10,184 as grants$294,872 earned by the program70% of program spendingKaleidoscope Dance Company is Creative Dance Center's resident modern dance company of youth ages 7-18. For the 2024-2025 season, twenty-seven children and teens were company members. The Gift of Dance Concert, featuring original choreography by Kaleidoscope dancers, was presented for three performances at the Erickson Theater in Seattle on December 7 and 8, 2024. Kaleidoscope Spring Concert, held May 9, 10, 11, 2025 at Broadway Performance Hall in Seattle, showcased the company in four performances over one weekend. Emergent, established, and BIPOC choreographers had their work seen by a wide audience. Youth choreography was also featured, amplifying artistic voices of children and teens. We offered free tickets to youth and family focused organizations to attend this concert, as well as elementary and middle school educators and educators working in the dance and arts sector. Ticket prices for seniors and youth are discounted. Scholarships and tuition assistance are given as needed to ensure that children and teens wishing to participate in the company have full access. Kaleidoscope performed an interactive, educational, and entertaining concert for local schools, Olympic View…
$108,470 spentof which $3,505 as grants$90,136 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe annual Summer Dance Institute for Teachers (SDIT) offers professional development and personal growth for educators, dance teachers, arts specialists, therapists, and more. This professional learning opportunity provides immersion in the teaching methods developed by CDC Founder, Anne Green Gilbert. These teaching methods are known as Brain-Compatible Dance Education. In July 2024, 36 participants from across the US, Canada, Germany, Belgium, and Australia took part in SDIT. Content included brain-compatible teaching methods for all ages, BrainDance, creative dance, modern, West African dance, curriculum integration, choreography, sequential and holistic lesson planning, inclusion and access, and best practices for classroom management. To increase accessibility, scholarships and financial aid were awarded to those requiring support in order to attend.
$27,118 spentof which $5,020 as grants$22,626 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $451,959.
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 $462k to $604k (+31%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 10% · 2023 17% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Creative Dance Center’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. 3 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $13 → $36k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Creative Dance Center’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
Creative Dance Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Creative Dance Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 75% · 2022 64% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of Creative Dance Center'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
54% of Creative Dance Center's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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.
Against its field
Creative Dance Center is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Creative Dance Center
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Creative Dance Center: 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 Creative Dance Center?
- Creative Dance Center (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,398 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($41,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Creative Dance Center have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $130,398 in grants to Creative Dance Center, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Creative Dance Center?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $41,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Creative Dance Center 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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