Maryland · Nonprofit
DANCEMAKERS INC
DANCEMAKERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,400 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $501k
What Dancemakers Inc does
Mission
Dance makers, inc.s mission is to save and strengthen youth by promoting their mental and physical well-being while encouraging their creativity through the study of dance and other performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community schools afterschool programs rocketship, perry street and browne education campus: the success of the smarts program has demonstrated the value of holistic arts programming that helps students in our region to grow artistically and academically. Among our recent successes, dance makers is most proud of our efforts to continue providing the physical, social, and emotional benefits of access to the arts throughout the pandemic. We were able to remain open throughout, pivoting swiftly to virtual instruction, then to an in-person and virtual hybrid model.
$353,268 spent50% of program spendingLearn 24 program browne education campus & perry street: grant fund supported the smarts designed to keep children safe and to provide academic, recreational and other enrichment opportunities, such as tutoring, dance, art and other cultural events for children. It also provides life-long learning opportunities for community members. Smarts focuses on academic, enrichment, and social development after school and summer. The success of the smarts program has demonstrated the value of holistic arts programming that helps students in our region to grow artistically and academically. Among recent successes, dance makers is most proud of our efforts to continue providing the physical, social, and emotional benefits of access to the arts throughout the pandemic. We were able to remain open throughout, pivoting swiftly to virtual instruction, then to an in-person and virtual hybrid model.
$353,268 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $706,536.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $623k to $999k (+60%).
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: 2020 57% · 2021 46% · 2022 52% · 2023 57% · 2024 59% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of DANCEMAKERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 6 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
Robin Pitts
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $25k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 DANCEMAKERS 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
DANCEMAKERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 DANCEMAKERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of DANCEMAKERS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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
DANCEMAKERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DANCEMAKERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Grant$1.3M
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 DANCEMAKERS 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
23% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANCEMAKERS 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 DANCEMAKERS INC?
- DANCEMAKERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,400 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DANCEMAKERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $120,400 in grants to DANCEMAKERS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCEMAKERS INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCEMAKERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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