California · Nonprofit
DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT
DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,015,061 to it, the largest being DUNARD FUND USA LTD ($975,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $-17004
What Dance Downtown la Inc la Dance Project does
Mission
To promote new collaborative work by emerging and established artists and to revist influential multidisciplinary dance collaborations from the past, to create innovative platforms for contemporary dance and to expand the experience of dance and dance education to all audiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Dance downtown la creates innovative platforms for dance and expands the experience of dance and dance education to audiences and students of all ages. The organization strives to present the highest quality of artistry and performances to the widest possible audience. In doing so, the company expands and diversifies its classical and contemporary repertoire while at the same time providing the highest level of artistic and professional training for its dancers. Through its activities, including performances and educational outreach, dance downtown la works to expand the cultural lives of adults and children throughout the united states and the world by bringing to the audience a unique combination of dance, music, and visual arts.
$2,384,732 spent$1,061,330 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,384,732.
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 $880k to $2.1M (+137%).
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 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 5% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lucinda Gould Lent
Executive director (thru 06/2024)
Board chair
Mark Terbeek
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $547k → $686k.
8 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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 DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 37% · 2019 44% · 2020 22% · 2021 51% · 2022 21% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $849k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gestures Productions LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT?
- DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,015,061 to it, the largest being DUNARD FUND USA LTD ($975,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,015,061 in grants to DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT?
- DUNARD FUND USA LTD is the largest funder on record, with $975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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