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DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON

DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,991,082 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,250). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.8M
Revenue FY2024
36
Funders on record
$4.0M
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
20/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($976k) Expenses 100 ($771k) Net assets 100 ($133k)2018 Revenue 91 ($891k) Expenses 114 ($876k) Net assets 111 ($148k)2019 Revenue 145 ($1.4M) Expenses 146 ($1.1M) Net assets 234 ($311k)2020 Revenue 169 ($1.7M) Expenses 148 ($1.1M) Net assets 621 ($825k)2021 Revenue 156 ($1.5M) Expenses 192 ($1.5M) Net assets 650 ($864k)2022 Revenue 293 ($2.9M) Expenses 296 ($2.3M) Net assets 2074 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 260 ($2.5M) Expenses 324 ($2.5M) Net assets 575 ($763k)2024 Revenue 391 ($3.8M) Expenses 412 ($3.2M) Net assets 1055 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (391)Expenses (412)Net assets (1055)

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 42% · 2018 39% · 2019 55% · 2020 63% · 2021 52% · 2022 68% · 2023 55% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$205k
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$15k
18
$290k
19
$514k
20
$39k
21
$577k
22
$39k
23
$638k
24
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $18k → $238k.

4 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Diw Real Estate Holdings Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON raised.

From the IRS filings of DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65% 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 INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON.

50%
largest funder
62%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 59% · 2019 36% · 2020 31% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 21%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

29% of DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

59% of DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states.

IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
FL

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

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 36 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $305k on record.

Federal$305k
grants $305kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$305k

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 INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

64%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Diw Real Estate Holdings Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: 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 INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON?
DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,991,082 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,250). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,991,082 in grants to DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,001,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 36funders 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