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.
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· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporatedshared fundersportfolio match
- The Rose Hills Foundationshared funderslocal
- Danceusaportfolio match
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.
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 (64% 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
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 10 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 45 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporatedshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Rose Hills Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 123 organizations that share your funders · funds 476 organizations near you
- Danceusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dance Service New York City Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harkness Foundation for Dance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Dance Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Association of Blacks in Danceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2wice Arts Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deutsch Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 159 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 45funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing