Texas · Nonprofit
Dont Ask Why
Dont Ask Why (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,750 to it, the largest being DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ENDOWMENT INC ($35,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Dont Ask Why does
Mission
Agora Artists is an arts service organization focused on providing programming and resources that contribute to a supportive ecosystem for dance in DFW. Through workshops forums and other creative assets Agora Artists aims to help individual dancers maintain an active and sustainable creative life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Seeds is a comprehensive project providing emerging and seasoned dancemakers with tools means and support to create develop and premiere a new finished work. This is a twelve-week crash course in self producing a choreographic work ready for future festival & venue showings. Seeds encompasses a subsidized rehearsal space career development consultations professional mentorship and numerous connections within the dance community culminating in a two-evening fully produced performance at Arts Mission Oak Cliff AMOC in Oak Cliff Dallas. The project is free of charge--no application fees no production fees and no rental costs will be charged to the applicant choreographer. Agora Artists also provides a modest budget to remunerate choreographers dancers and cover production expenses such as costumes props and travel reimbursements. This program served 35 artists and reached 170 audience members.
$17,330 spentof which $12,000 as grants58% of program spendingMini Movement Fest MMF is a one-day long dance festival at Arts Mission Oak Cliff. This festival holds a specials place in our hearts because it served as a catalyst for the formation of Agora Artists. Each festival we invite guest artists based in Texas to teach and perform their work in Oak Cliff. Our mission is to provide a safe community-centered space for the invited artists to share their pedagogy and performance work with new audiences. The festival is simultaneously an opportunity for local dancers to work with new artists creating opportunities for connection in the greater Texas dance community. The festivals overall attendance was 192.
$10,353 spentof which $5,500 as grants34% of program spendingSplit Bill at AMOC was a dance concert featuring two dance companies Dallas-based connectivetissuedance and 2nd Best Dance Company from New York. The performance was an intimate evening of physical storytelling and ran for two nights. 9 artists were involved in the concert and 70 people attended.
$2,388 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,071.
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.
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.
80% of Dont Ask Why’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Avery Jai Andrews
Executive Director
Board chair
Sonya Ewing Andrews
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of Dont Ask Why’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
Dont Ask Why leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Dont Ask Why.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Dont Ask Why's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Dont Ask Why runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Dont Ask Why
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Dont Ask Why: 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 Dont Ask Why?
- Dont Ask Why (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,750 to it, the largest being DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ENDOWMENT INC ($35,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dont Ask Why have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,750 in grants to Dont Ask Why, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dont Ask Why?
- DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dont Ask Why find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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