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DANCERS GROUP

DANCERS GROUP (California) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,175,989 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($2,627,400). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.3M
Funders on record
99
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$1.4M
52/99 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Dancers Group does

Mission

Dancers Group promotes the visibility and viability of dance and serves artists, the dance community and audiences via programs and services that are as collaborative and innovative as the creative process itself. We lead as both a service organization and a presenter of performance opportunities. This hybrid engagement maximizes our impact in san francisco and beyond and supports a vision of the regions dance community as diverse, resilient, resourced and artistically vibrant.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fiscal sponsorship dancers' group worked with and supported 96 san francisco bay area based choreographers, dance companies, and community dance projects through our fiscal sponsorship program, which provided them with much needed administrative and financial oversight, as well as mentorship. Dancers' group staff met online and in-person with the leaders of our sponsored projects and communicated via email and by phone about the many shifts and changes to work and activities due to continued impacts on the economy and from covid. We continued to support each projects fundraising activity and ensured funding agencies and contributors that donations and grants received on behalf of the artists/projects were well managed and funds were disbursed according to the grant proposal and their guidelines.

    $4,858,474 spent$529,758 earned by the program
    86% of program spending
  2. Membership & communication outreach (free/nonvoting) membership & communication outreach is the primary unifying force of dancers' group. Our members receive a variety of thoughtful benefits and services that help keep them informed and connected to what's happening in dance in the san francisco bay area and beyond. 2024 benefits included access to in dance (three issues online) weekly emails featuring auditions, jobs, grants, free and discounted tickets, news and more grant deadlines; weekly performance reminders; artist resources, and discounts on dance activities. Dancers' group has continued to create significant value in membership, providing access to information, opportunity, and resources that are truly needed. As a result, we have 1,741 members as of december 31, 2024.

    $544,469 spent$45,091 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  3. Artist services - artist services included the ca$h dance regranting program that awarded $100,000 in grants to 10 individual artists and 10 organizations ($5,000 each). These grants supported a diverse roster of artists, highlighting dance forms such as african and african diasporic, aerial/vertical, acrobatic, bharatanatyam, classical chinese, contemporary ballet, freestyle, improvisation, jazz funk, kathak, street styles, and more. Bay area dance week returned in 2024 for its 24th year. From april 26 to may 5, the 10-day festival offered the public the opportunity to experience the region's vibrant and diverse dance scene, completely free of charge. The 2024 festival featured 179 free events, including performances, classes, workshops, open rehearsals, and more. Total attendance was 16,518. Onsite is a program of free, large-scale, site-specific dance in san francisco. On may 9th, 10th, and 12th, dancers' group presented a 3-day artistic intervention at san francisco city hall. Free attendance totaled 1,893 for the performances.

    $272,234 spentof which $100,000 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,675,177.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($561k)2020 Revenue 141 ($3.5M) Expenses 109 ($2.6M) Net assets 264 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 114 ($2.8M) Expenses 124 ($2.9M) Net assets 247 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 247 ($6.1M) Expenses 185 ($4.3M) Net assets 554 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 186 ($4.6M) Expenses 205 ($4.8M) Net assets 512 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 177 ($4.3M) Expenses 248 ($5.8M) Net assets 249 ($1.4M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (177)Expenses (248)Net assets (249)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.9M to $8.1M (+65%).

$1.3M
$3.1M
$4.9M
$8.1M
$7.9M
$6.1M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 7% · 2020 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 20% · 2023 17% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of DANCERS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$113k
’19
$923k
’20
−$98k
’21
$1.7M
’22
−$234k
’23
−$1.5M
’24
12
months of
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

Wayne Hazzard

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed121110965
Joined·+0+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·11232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $580k → $2.4M.

31 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 DANCERS GROUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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

DANCERS GROUP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

41% 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 DANCERS GROUP.

14%
largest funder
38%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 43% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 32% · 2023 22% — 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

37% of DANCERS GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

DANCERS GROUP draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 17 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
NM
NC
DC
HI
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DANCERS GROUP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding DANCERS GROUP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $142k on record.

Federal$142k
grants $142kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$142k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DANCERS GROUP?
DANCERS GROUP (California) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,175,989 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($2,627,400). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DANCERS GROUP have?
IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $18,175,989 in grants to DANCERS GROUP, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DANCERS GROUP?
THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,627,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DANCERS GROUP 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 99 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