New York · Nonprofit
DANCE WORKS INC
DANCE WORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $736,258 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($222,125). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $736k
- Net assets
- $288k
What Dance Works Inc does
Mission
The organization serves the performing arts community by providing artists with the administrative support they need to fulfill their artistic visions and develop wider audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Artist services: fiscal administration, fiscal sponsorship, bookkeeping, booking/representation, administrative personnel, mentors, interns, performance/showcase opportunities and working sessions in our areas of expertise. In addition to artist services, the organization has: 1) education & outreach programming including: in-school programs, community centers and internships. 2) new initiatives including: nextsteps, a website for artists providing a one-stop shop for business resources, and cash advance program,a loan program with low barrier access points for underserved communities and free financial mentorship.
$874,955 spent$579,228 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $874,955.
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 2019 to 2020, from $275k to $637k (+132%).
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 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 15% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 9% · 2024 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of DANCE WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Felicia Rosenfeld
Interim executive director
Board chair
Marilyn Peck Francescon
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 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 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $127k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 WORKS 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 WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 WORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 83% · 2019 62% · 2020 60% · 2021 60% · 2022 66% · 2023 76% — 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
27% of DANCE WORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 WORKS INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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.
Against its field
DANCE WORKS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DANCE WORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $190k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$190k
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 WORKS 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 New York
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
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Foundation for Independent Artists Inc · exempt
- Unique Projects Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANCE WORKS 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 WORKS INC?
- DANCE WORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $736,258 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($222,125). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANCE WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $736,258 in grants to DANCE WORKS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCE WORKS INC?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $222,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCE WORKS 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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