California · Nonprofit
DANCE AND DIALOGUE
DANCE AND DIALOGUE (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,024 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $421k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $724k
- Net assets
- $0
What Dance and Dialogue does
Mission
To provide free educational instruction. Offers programs in individual schools and multi school workshops which provide instruction in dance not as performance but as an experience in the art of various dance traditions and combines that experience with social emotional learning in encounter groups, the experience of which then informs the dance which follows.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational instruction provided in Workshop Programs. Over 2,000 students served in three workshops. The Workshops brought together students from schools located in various communities who might not otherwise have had the opportunity to connect and served to create those connections based on the knowledge gained in the encounter group; dancing together gave the students a shared joyful experience which further strengthened the newly formed connection.
$18,000 spent5% of program spendingEducational instruction provided in In-school residency programs. Over 2,000.00 students served. In school residencies are conducted in multiple schools largely serving LAUSD. The residencies include elements in individual classes similar to those in the Workshop, combining the art of dance and social emotional learning
$323,958 spent87% of program spendingEnd of year dance performance. An opportunity for students who participated, primarily in the in school residencies, to share a dance they've created for an audience of other students and friends and family. These performances of dances the students have choreographed are presented on a professional stage under the guidance of their instructors.
$30,000 spent8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $371,958.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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: 2023 13% · 2024 45% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of DANCE AND DIALOGUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Ricka Kelsch
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $20k → $100k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 AND DIALOGUE’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 AND DIALOGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 AND DIALOGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 50% · 2019 40% · 2020 56% · 2021 29% · 2022 35% · 2023 30% — 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 DANCE AND DIALOGUE'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
51% of DANCE AND DIALOGUE'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 $358k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $366k 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
DANCE AND DIALOGUE has grown faster than three-quarters 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 DANCE AND DIALOGUE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DANCE AND DIALOGUE: 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 AND DIALOGUE?
- DANCE AND DIALOGUE (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,024 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DANCE AND DIALOGUE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $724,024 in grants to DANCE AND DIALOGUE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCE AND DIALOGUE?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCE AND DIALOGUE 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 2022–2025), 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