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Dance Alive Inc

Dance Alive Inc (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,862,104 to it, the largest being KHOURY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($687,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$3.5M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$4.4M
12/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Dance Alive Inc does

Mission

Dance Alive, Inc., aspires to enrich humanity by sustaining a professional ballet company of the highest caliber which strives for excellence in the fields of artistic creativity, performance, education and community leadership.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Ballet Programs: Mainstage Programming The Company produced four major productions during the year at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Performances include traditional ballets and original full-length works.

    $537,402 spent$257,197 earned by the program
    53% of program spending
  2. Ballet Programs: Tours Dance Alive National Ballet tours Florida and the Continental United States as well as internationally. This program brings ballet to many communities considered to be underserved in the arts.

    $376,849 spent$202,513 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  3. Ballet Programs: Outreach - DANCIN is a program that provides children ages 8-17 the opportunity to perform in venues such as arts festivals, retirement facilities and schools. DANCE PARTNERS is a program designed to bring at-risk or disadvantaged persons to Mainstage productions. Working with United Way and the Florida Department of Children and Families, over 1,500 individuals were able to enjoy ballet performances at no cost. DISCOVERING DANCE, The Mainstage Experience provides mainstage and school performances to over 3,500 school-age children from Alachua and surrounding counties. SENIOR MOMENTS provides life-long learning activities for seniors, through lectures, demonstrations, seminars and performances at three senior facilities in Gainesville, Florida. LETS DANCE is an instructional program for children with mental and physical disabilities. Dance Alive National Ballet has partnered with the Childrens Trust of Alachua County, Florida State Department of Arts and Culture, and the City of Gainesville.

    $95,025 spent$13,032 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,009,276.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($561k) Expenses 100 ($581k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2018 Revenue 100 ($564k) Expenses 109 ($633k) Net assets -141 ($-40387)2019 Revenue 119 ($669k) Expenses 117 ($680k) Net assets -179 ($-51329)2020 Revenue 128 ($717k) Expenses 122 ($710k) Net assets -155 ($-44372)2021 Revenue 123 ($690k) Expenses 105 ($608k) Net assets 132 ($38k)2022 Revenue 146 ($818k) Expenses 137 ($796k) Net assets 210 ($60k)2023 Revenue 225 ($1.3M) Expenses 170 ($988k) Net assets 1631 ($468k)2024 Revenue 265 ($1.5M) Expenses 190 ($1.1M) Net assets 2949 ($847k)2025 Revenue 434 ($2.4M) Expenses 201 ($1.2M) Net assets 7114 ($2.0M)2026 Revenue 626 ($3.5M) Expenses 211 ($1.2M) Net assets 15321 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (626)Expenses (211)Net assets (15321)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $2.9M to $5.2M (+80%).

$60k
$8k
$15k
$78k
$199k
$122k
$568k
$947k
$2.9M
$5.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 13% · 2019 18% · 2020 21% · 2021 37% · 2022 29% · 2023 18% · 2024 24% · 2025 8% · 2026 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
−$69k
’18
−$11k
’19
$7k
’20
$82k
’21
$23k
’22
$275k
’23
$378k
’24
$1.3M
’25
$2.3M
’26
5.9
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

Susan Scanella

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed11161416171619171621
Joined·+5+4+6+5+2+5+2+2+5
No longer listed·064432430
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $18k → $240k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Dance Alive 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

Dance Alive Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31% 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 Dance Alive Inc.

37%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 55% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 60% · 2022 74% · 2023 63% — 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

57% of Dance Alive Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

62% of Dance Alive Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

MO
DE
NC
SC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Dance Alive Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.

Federal$60k
grants $60kcontracts $0
19
20
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$60k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 13%Fundraising 5%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dance Alive Inc: 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 Dance Alive Inc?
Dance Alive Inc (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,862,104 to it, the largest being KHOURY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($687,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Dance Alive Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,862,104 in grants to Dance Alive Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Dance Alive Inc?
KHOURY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $687,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Dance Alive Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 17 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