Georgia · Nonprofit
DANCE CANVAS INC
DANCE CANVAS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,414 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($153,125). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $215k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $430k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Dance Canvas Inc does
Mission
Dance Canvas' mission is to provide opportunities and venues to increase the awareness of professional dance in the southeast. We achieve our mission through three program areas of service career development, youth outreach and audience engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Professional Performance Series (Choreographer Career Development Initiative): Provides 10 professional choreographers with career building resources and a venue for rehearsals/performances; Works with 50 professional dancers to create world premier dance works to present to over 1200 audience members (including at least 600 youth through our outreach efforts). We provide career mentoring services to the choreographers. We provide critical analysis projects to our youth audiences. We also have a Dance Canvas: on Film program which provides career development services to emerging dance film makers.
$100,195 spentof which $65,380 as grants$31,694 earned by the program56% of program spendingDance Canvas youth programs: DC NEXT (a 4-week program designed to teach 25-30 students about the professional career of dance. The teens produce their own production, and work with choreographers from across the country. Students learn how to set goals, negotiate their future career plans, and identify the challenges and barriers to success.); Outreach: (City of Atlanta Centers of Hope, after school year long program for ages 5-12 yrs, in partnership with the City of Atlanta's Department of Recreation). Total outreach participants: 200-400 kids ages 5-18 yrs. We also provide workshops, lectures and master classes to Atlanta area middle and high schools throughout the year. We also provide field trip options for middle and high schools to attend our professional performances.
$56,359 spentof which $31,835 as grants$57,962 earned by the program32% of program spendingAudience Development/Free community events: Performances, Master classes, Open rehearsals for the community; Estimates of attendees reach 2,000 annually. Dance Canvas also started an online blog salon to educate the community about the choreographic process, as well as the importance of the arts in the lives of youth and the general community.
$21,322 spentof which $18,773 as grants$1,489 earned by the program12% 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: $177,876.
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 2020 to 2021, from $110k to $234k (+112%).
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 35% · 2023 34% · 2024 34% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of DANCE CANVAS INC’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Hila Roberts
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $45k.
3 of 11 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 DANCE CANVAS 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 CANVAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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 CANVAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 37% · 2021 65% · 2022 64% · 2023 78% — 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
25% of DANCE CANVAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
95% of DANCE CANVAS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k 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
DANCE CANVAS INC holds deeper cash reserves 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
Government funding DANCE CANVAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 DANCE CANVAS INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 DANCE CANVAS 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 CANVAS INC?
- DANCE CANVAS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,414 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($153,125). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANCE CANVAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $430,414 in grants to DANCE CANVAS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCE CANVAS INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $153,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCE CANVAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 11 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