New York · Nonprofit
DANSPACE PROJECT INC
DANSPACE PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,845,080 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($2,308,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $682k
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Danspace Project Inc does
Mission
Danspace project, inc. Is an organization that presents dance works at st. Mark's church in-the-bowery and at other venues in new york city. Founded by artists in 1974 at the historic landmark of st. Mark's church, danspace project is an international leader in the commissioning and presentation of contemporary dance. The mission of the danspace project is to present new works in dance, support a diverse range of choreographers in developing their work, encourage experimentation and connect artists to audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Danspace project's 2024-25 50th anniversary season presented 25 public engagements including 10 free of charge, engaging over 90 artists and reaching a live audience of 2626. Danspace commissioned 5 new premiere works by a new generation of choreographers niall jones, ayano elson, wendell gray ii, glenn potter takada, and jade manns. These artists received commission fees and a week-long production residency leading into their performance week. Danspace also presented stacy matthew spence's 2024 commissioned work "I am, here; here with us; where we find ourselves," remounted and co-presented in 2025 through live artery by new york live arts. In addition, danspace co-hosted a free afternoon of readings, music, and performances through "energies: reactivation of gordon matta-clark's rosebush at st. Mark's church" in collaboration with the swiss institute and the poetry project. At 50 forward: "the future is" gathering, 50 micro-commissioned short films by intergenerational danspace artists were screened with celebratory activities around st. Mark's church-in-the-bowery, including live offerings by special guests mayfield brooks, silas riener, angie pittman, ali rosa-salas and nazuk…
$447,928 spent$25,608 earned by the program50% of program spendingDanspace@50: 50th anniversary festivaldanspace was proud to celebrate a historic and rich 50th anniversary with its 50th anniversary festival entitled danspace@50:"work is never done. Sanctuary always needed." the festival curated extraordinary artists from our illustrious past in conversation with an exciting new generation of artists and featured historic revivals and re-imaginings of work by ishmael houston-jones & fred holland (sold out), donna uchizono (sold out), bebe miller (sold out), and marjani forte-saunders & blondell cummings; a screening/discussion of rarely seen footage of the late dance legend steve paxton with his partner lisa nelson and cathy weis; a reunion of claudia larocco's 2015 platform, dancers, buildings and people in the streets, featuring conversations, performances and screenings about the dance lineages of george balanchine, merce cunningham, and judson dance theater; and a revisiting of reggie wilson's guest curated platform from 2018, dancing platform praying grounds: blackness, churches, and downtown dance, which included a panel discussion and documentary film screening; and a conclusory panel conversation at the nypl facilitated by danspace's…
$289,681 spent$31,775 earned by the program32% of program spendingPartnership & rental programsthis year marked the revitalization of our production rental program, which had been dormant since 2019 due to covid-19. As part of our 'off-season' program, danspace offered week-long rental packages to two artist groups, megan williams dance project and aunts. These artists paid danspace project a flat fee, rehearsed and performed in our space, and received box office sales as compensation. Danspace also offered weekly rentals of our space to the new school and to movement research for the purpose of teaching class. This continued our long tradition of partnering with local organizations to host dance classes that benefit the local community.
$99,958 spent$34,423 earned by the program11% of program spendingResidencies and rehearsalsdanspace invited bebe miller received a week-long creative residency in november with an open rehearsal showing and supported emily johnson/catalyst for a fall residency in delaware county, ny on haudenosaunee lands through nys danceforce. In addition, danspace offered our space to several artists for shorter rehearsal periods throughout the year, totaling 145 hours in the space.publicationsdanspace's free online journal published issue 18 featuring writing, images, and video from artists and writers including claudia larocco, nora raine thomson, and noa rui-piin weiss. Issue 18 also includes archival video of bebe miller's "vespers" (1982), donna uchizono's "state of heads" (1999), and the complete compilation of "steve paxton - a video amble and "pa rt" (1983). Finally, the journal featured the 50 microcommissioned "the future is" videos in which 50 artists representing all five decades of danspace recorded a 50-second dance or performance.
$67,210 spent$21,811 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $904,777.
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 2017 to 2018, from $878k to $1.4M (+57%).
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 22% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% · 2024 6% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of DANSPACE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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
Judy Hussie-Taylor
Executive director and chief curator
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $65k → $1.3M.
9 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 DANSPACE PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
DANSPACE PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 DANSPACE PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 49% · 2019 62% · 2020 53% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of DANSPACE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
85% of DANSPACE PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
DANSPACE PROJECT INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding DANSPACE PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $315k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$315k
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 DANSPACE PROJECT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 DANSPACE PROJECT 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 DANSPACE PROJECT INC?
- DANSPACE PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,845,080 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($2,308,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANSPACE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $5,845,080 in grants to DANSPACE PROJECT INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANSPACE PROJECT INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,308,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANSPACE PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 48 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