New York · Nonprofit
DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC
DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,906,292 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,894,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Dance Service New York City Inc does
Mission
Dance service new york city, inc.'s mission is to champion the new york city metropolitan area dance sector by fostering a more just, equitable, and inclusive landscape where dance workers and organizations can thrive. Rooted in research, dance/nyc engages in advocacy, regranting, and knowledge-sharing that works toward establishing dance as a valued form of cultural expression and a common good.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Regranting: dance/nyc delivers financial resources to the dance community in its role as a regrantor. Major projects include a dance advancement fund, which supports dance makers with budgets under $250k; a new york city dance rehearsal space subsidy program, which makes affordable dance rehearsal space more widely available; and the creation of a new dance workforce resilience fund to launch in 2025 that will provide direct microgrants to individual freelance dance workers and support improving working conditions.
$987,516 spentof which $720,142 as grants61% of program spendingDance.nyc:dance/nyc's website, dance.nyc, which launched in 2014, is the "go to" site for dance promotional and management resources and positions the organization for leadership in knowledge-sharing. Dance.nyc offers a community calendar, listings boards, resources and promotional platforms for the dance community and includes its research and advocacy work for the public. The organization also sends out weekly and monthly e-newsletters and social media campaigns about ongoing news and opportunities of importance to the metropolitan new york city area dance community. Dance/nyc successfully launched a new mini-site - the dwr hub -(hub.dance.nyc), with a resource library for dance workers' professional development and self-advocacy and a digital home for the fifth state of nyc dance research report. The hub added a dance worker directory in 2024 and augments the digital reach of dance/nyc's website, dance.nyc, which continues to serve as a centralized platform for dance community engagement and professional development resources.
$159,778 spent10% of program spendingResearch:dance/nyc is committed to effective case-building grounded in action-oriented research to guide strategic and responsive policy, funding development, and management practices in the metropolitan new york city area. Based on emergent priorities from the state of nyc dance 2023: findings from the dance industry census (released in december 2023), dance/nyc commissioned a comparative study of and report on wage and working standards to inform forthcoming field-wide frameworks and tools.
$58,430 spent4% of program spendingAdvocacydance/nyc advocates on behalf of the dance sector by regularly representing its interests to the city, state, and federal government and to the philanthropic community. Using its research as a tool for change and rooted in its organizational values of justice, equity, and inclusion, dance/nyc drives policy, disseminates resources, provides self-advocacy tools, and informs investment and program development. Dance/nyc furthered its advocacy work via ongoing engagement in legislative and public representation of the dance workforce to the city, state, and federal governments as well as the regular dissemination of newsletters and tools for self-advocacy and civic education on its advocacy page(https://bit.ly/dancenyc_advocacy) and dwr hub (https://hub.dance.nyc/). The organization's efforts included the continuation of field-wide calls to help educate, deliver resources, instigate dialogue, and foster peer learning and collective action around timely initiatives, tools, and resources; in addition to its ongoing partnership with community members, peer organizations, and field leaders to best serve the changing needs of dance workers,artists, organizations, and businesses to…
$401,205 spent$6,306 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,606,929.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $6.2M (+65%).
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 9% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 31% · 2023 11% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Elissa D Hecker
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $587k → $869k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 26 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 SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 51% · 2018 85% · 2019 58% · 2020 39% · 2021 72% · 2022 57% · 2023 40% — 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
54% of DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC'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
96% of DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC?
- DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,906,292 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,894,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $10,906,292 in grants to DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,894,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 26 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