California · Nonprofit
DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT
DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being CHIN-OYUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $286k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Dancing With the Elephant does
Mission
Support and help family memebers communications
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Support and help family memebers communications
$230,003 spent$285,554 earned by the program89% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $259,654. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $52k to $78k (+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.
0% of DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT’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
DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
100% of DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT: 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 DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT?
- DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being CHIN-OYUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,500 in grants to DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT?
- CHIN-OYUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCING WITH THE ELEPHANT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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