Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON
DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,081,482 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Dance Institute of Washington does
Mission
Dance Institute of Washington provides children and youth the opportunity to develop artistically, socially, emotionally and intellectually through ballet and diverse dance. Its commitments to access, equity and artistic excellence distinguish diw from others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Dance instruction - diw provides high quality dance instruction of numerous dance styles for children, youth and adults, as well as performance opportunities on district of columbia's finest stages.community outreach - diw's free community outreach program combines quality dance training with academics, job and life skills workshops, mentoring, work experience, creative projects, field trips, and performances to help the city's least-served, low-income youth advance towards high school graduation, college and careers.audience development - audience development is conducted through marketing, community outreach, performances, open house events, concerts and lecture demonstrations.
$2,746,751 spentof which $96,582 as grants$304,439 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,746,751.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $5.1M (+385%).
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: 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.
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
Kahina Haynes
Executive director
Board chair
Marcellous Frye
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $18k → $238k.
5 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 39 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 49% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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.
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
33% of DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
57% 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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- 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
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,081,482 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% 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 39 organizations giving $4,081,482 in grants to DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON, 21 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.
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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 39 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