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Dance Project Inc

Dance Project Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,493 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ($114,465). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$231k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$241k
Net assets
$477k
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Dance Project Inc does

Mission

Dance Project's mission is to cultivate the field of modern dance in North Carolina, nuturing a community of artists, audiences and students by providing opportunities for training, performance, collaboration and employment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dance Project supports regional artists and encourages the creation and presentation of original choregraphic works by area dance artists by providing opportunities for performance, training, professional development, and networking. In addition, it educates dance students of all ages and abilities through ongoing classes and community programs. Dance Project encourages the public in the arts by providing opportunities to view dance and to gain an understanding of and appreciation for modern dance.

    $204,214 spent$121,235 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,214.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($362k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 100 ($564k)2019 Revenue 77 ($279k) Expenses 97 ($221k) Net assets 116 ($655k)2020 Revenue 60 ($217k) Expenses 109 ($247k) Net assets 109 ($614k)2021 Revenue 67 ($242k) Expenses 97 ($219k) Net assets 126 ($710k)2022 Revenue 55 ($198k) Expenses 130 ($294k) Net assets 103 ($581k)2023 Revenue 74 ($267k) Expenses 137 ($309k) Net assets 96 ($542k)2024 Revenue 70 ($252k) Expenses 134 ($303k) Net assets 89 ($501k)2025 Revenue 64 ($231k) Expenses 122 ($277k) Net assets 84 ($477k)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (122)Net assets (84)

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 $714k to $581k (−19%).

$580k
$658k
$619k
$714k
$581k
$542k
$501k
$478k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 15% · 2021 46% · 2022 5% · 2023 12% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$135k
’18
$58k
’19
−$31k
’20
$22k
’21
−$96k
’22
−$42k
’23
−$51k
’24
−$47k
’25
6.2
months of
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

Alison Ridings

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1512121091199
Joined·+3+0+2+0+3+1+1
No longer listed·6041131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $39k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Project 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 Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 Project Inc.

47%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 58% · 2021 67% · 2022 46% · 2023 43% — 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

67% of Dance Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of Dance Project Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

PA
NJ
NC

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

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’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Dance Project Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.

Federal$80k
grants $80kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$80k

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 Project 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 19%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dance Project 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 Project Inc?
Dance Project Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,493 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ($114,465). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Dance Project Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $241,493 in grants to Dance Project Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Dance Project Inc?
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC is the largest funder on record, with $114,465 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Dance Project Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 13 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