California · Nonprofit
Dance Resource Center of Greater LA
Dance Resource Center of Greater LA (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,972 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $727k
- Net assets
- $532k
What Dance Resource Center of Greater LA does
Mission
The Dance Resource Center of Great Los Angeles is a service organization for dance. The corporation's primary objectives are to provide the dance community access to information, resources and services and promote the visibility and viability of Great Los Angeles dance on local, state, and national levels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community including interactive website, calendar, convenings, weekly resource e-newsletter, workshops, networking events, opportunities/resource bulletin board, and Day of Dancer Health (DDH). DDH expanded to include all ability dancers, customizing the experience/screenings to attend to the unique needs of professional dancers and educators including those with varying abilities/disabilities. Community Convenings provide a welcoming and transparent space to share and resolve sector challenges and build meaningful relationships, opportunities and collaborations. Programming is free or pay what you can and offered predominantly in underserved districts across the County to ensure accessibility.
$124,568 spent33% of program spendingAdministrative Services includes email and social media marketing, consulting services, research, staffing, fiscal administration support, and fiscal sponsorship. Services are offered at subsidized rates and tiered according to organizations budget, size and infrastructure needs.
$124,568 spent33% of program spendingArtistic Development/HomeGrown supports the maturation and growth of LA area dance makers and their process and work at all stages in career, providing artistic development and skill building via free creative, work and rehearsal space, performance opportunities and residencies. Participants from traditionally excluded communities are able to utilize well-equipped space otherwise not offered or affordable, bringing a spectrum of genres together expanding on each creative's visibility and viability, while dynamically bolstering small local businesses around the City and County.
$124,568 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $373,704.
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 2022 to 2023, from $257k to $814k (+217%).
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 16% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 19% · 2021 52% · 2023 26% · 2024 54% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Albertossy Espinoza
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $43k → $572k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Resource Center of Greater LA’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 Resource Center of Greater LA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 67% · 2020 45% · 2021 61% · 2022 85% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of Dance Resource Center of Greater LA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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 Resource Center of Greater LA draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.
Government funding Dance Resource Center of Greater LA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $131k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$131k
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 Resource Center of Greater LA
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dance Resource Center of Greater LA: 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 Resource Center of Greater LA?
- Dance Resource Center of Greater LA (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,972 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dance Resource Center of Greater LA have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $726,972 in grants to Dance Resource Center of Greater LA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dance Resource Center of Greater LA?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dance Resource Center of Greater LA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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