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DANCEWORKS INC

DANCEWORKS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,412,478 to it, the largest being UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ($1,438,126). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$970k
Revenue FY2025
27
Funders on record
$2.4M
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
21/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($411k)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.4M) Expenses 107 ($1.4M) Net assets 97 ($400k)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 104 ($1.4M) Net assets 81 ($333k)2020 Revenue 70 ($912k) Expenses 85 ($1.1M) Net assets 33 ($135k)2021 Revenue 94 ($1.2M) Expenses 65 ($856k) Net assets 123 ($504k)2022 Revenue 86 ($1.1M) Expenses 85 ($1.1M) Net assets 123 ($505k)2023 Revenue 84 ($1.1M) Expenses 91 ($1.2M) Net assets 98 ($401k)2024 Revenue 72 ($933k) Expenses 98 ($1.3M) Net assets 16 ($65k)2025 Revenue 75 ($970k) Expenses 77 ($1.0M) Net assets 6 ($24k)
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Revenue (75)Expenses (77)Net assets (6)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

$12k
17
$12k
18
$66k
19
$198k
20
$369k
21
$2k
22
$108k
23
$349k
24
$43k
25
1.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $300k → $429k.

4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)16% 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 60% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% 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.

60%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

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; 78% 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

97% of DANCEWORKS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
CT
CA

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $395k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding DANCEWORKS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.

Federal$40k
grants $40kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 13%Fundraising 10%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

WI

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds DANCEWORKS INC?
DANCEWORKS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,412,478 to it, the largest being UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ($1,438,126). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DANCEWORKS INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,412,478 in grants to DANCEWORKS INC, 21 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.

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 27funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing