Wisconsin · Nonprofit
DANCEWORKS INC
DANCEWORKS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,627,478 to it, the largest being UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ($1,438,126). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $970k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $24k
What Danceworks Inc does
Mission
To enhance joy, health and creativity by engaging the community through dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide a variety of dance classes for all age groups and achievement levels. This program provides the public with an opportunity to develop individual abilities and achieve a greater appreciation for dance. Summer camp provides the public with an opportunity to develop individual abilities and achieve a greater appreciation for dance. 18,700 total visits between youth and adults 80 summer campers 62 students participated in SDOW
$584,039 spent$348,222 earned by the program75% of program spendingOutreach programs and workshops - Workshop residencies and performance and enrichment programs to increase the public appreciation of dance. Mad Hot served 730 students in grades 4-6 from 31 schools, 1,152 contact hours. Generations served 145 youth participants at 8 classrooms and 110 seniors at 8 sites with 120 contact hours. Emoji Yogi served 271 students in 21 classrooms at 10 schools for a total or 336 contact hours. We hosted 31 different residencies and outreach performances with an additional 3,978 participants and 347 contact hours.
$123,134 spent$115,029 earned by the program16% of program spendingAnnual performance series - This program helps the public achieve a greater appreciation for the arts and provide exposure for many local and national dancers. 9 concerts 31 performances 2,019 patrons 19 season subscribers
$72,500 spent$66,406 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $779,673.
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.
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 $1.0M to $513k (−50%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 40% · 2022 16% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Julieane Cook
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $300k → $429k.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 DANCEWORKS 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
DANCEWORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 DANCEWORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 53% · 2019 45% · 2020 59% · 2021 51% · 2022 65% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of DANCEWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
97% of DANCEWORKS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $395k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding DANCEWORKS INC 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 DANCEWORKS 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 DANCEWORKS 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 DANCEWORKS INC?
- DANCEWORKS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,627,478 to it, the largest being UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ($1,438,126). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANCEWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,627,478 in grants to DANCEWORKS INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCEWORKS INC?
- UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,438,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCEWORKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 29 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