Texas · Nonprofit
Dance Source Houston
Dance Source Houston (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,544 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($1,170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $317k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $73k
What Dance Source Houston does
Mission
The mission of Dance Source Houston is to empower the diverse individuals and organizations working in the field of dance throughout the Greater Houston region by means of advocacy, inclusive community engagement and support services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dance Events: Creating performance opportunities for dance artists and organizations by presenting dance events including Barnstorm Dance Fest and Mind The Gap.
$84,462 spent$35,461 earned by the program32% of program spendingSupport Services: Dance Source Houston provides to support the local dance community including funding, professional development, resource sharing, dance writings, network building opportunities, and access to health services.
$147,048 spentof which $77,900 as grants$-47,470 earned by the program56% of program spendingDeveloping Audiences: Marketing services including the Dance Source Houston website, the Dance Card, weekly Resource Newsletter and Dance Eblasts.
$16,737 spent$3,930 earned by the program6% of program spendingDeveloping, Grants, Members
$12,804 spent$314,773 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,051.
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 2024 to 2025, from $88k to $130k (+48%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Dance Source Houston’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $198k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Source Houston’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 Source Houston leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 89% · 2020 91% · 2021 68% · 2022 80% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of Dance Source Houston's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Source Houston has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Dance Source Houston receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 Source Houston
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dance Source Houston: 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 Source Houston?
- Dance Source Houston (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,544 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($1,170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dance Source Houston have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,447,544 in grants to Dance Source Houston, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dance Source Houston?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dance Source Houston find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 6 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