Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DANCEUSA
DANCEUSA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,076,963 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,737,999). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Danceusa does
Mission
Dance/usa is the national service organization for the dance ecosystem.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dance/usa fellowships to artists provides unrestricted fellowships to movement-based artists to support their creative and social practice impacting one or more communities in which they work.
$1,112,266 spentof which $610,700 as grants58% of program spendingEngagement - dance forum brings together the dance industry to discuss immediate, field-wide issues every january. Dance business bootcamp equips individual artists with the skills and knowledge they need to address current business challenges. National conference is the national biennial convening of the dance ecosystem. Research - dance/usa performs annual surveys to measure the financial health, economic impact, and changing economic landscape of the dance field. See schedule o for additional program languageadvocacy - dance/usa represents the dance ecosystem before congress, federal agencies, and the white house and updates the member community on federal issues and legislation that affect the arts and culture sector. Archiving - dance/usa promotes education and awareness of dance archiving practices, dance history, and scholarship. Membership meetings dance/usa hosts regular meetings of peer groups to cultivate and strengthen relationships within the national dance ecosystem.
$819,000 spentof which $33,300 as grants42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,931,266.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.7M to $2.5M (−33%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2022 12% · 2024 12% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of DANCEUSA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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.
Chief executive
Kellee Edusei
Executive director
Board chair
Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $820k → $670k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DANCEUSA’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
DANCEUSA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 66% · 2021 32% · 2022 44% · 2023 65% — 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
64% of DANCEUSA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
DANCEUSA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k 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
DANCEUSA is better cushioned than half 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 DANCEUSA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $990k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$965k
- National Archives and Records Administration$25k
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 DANCEUSA
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 Washington, D.C.
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
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANCEUSA: 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 DANCEUSA?
- DANCEUSA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,076,963 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,737,999). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANCEUSA have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $7,076,963 in grants to DANCEUSA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCEUSA?
- DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,737,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCEUSA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 20 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