California · Nonprofit
FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER
FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,688 to it, the largest being ROBERTA FREEMAN COX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $947k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $153k
What Festival Ballet Theater does
Mission
Perform ballets to educate and increase cultural awarness of the community and generate an appreciation for fine arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Festival Ballet Theatre presented three productions a year at the Irvine Barclay Theatre as follows: 1. Two full-length classical ballet performances in the spring. 2. Sixteen performances of the Nutcracker in December. FBT has worked in collaboration with the top ballet companies in the United States by inviting guest artists to perform in their productions. FBT presented abridged performances in collaboration with the Festival of Children and Arts Orange County along with other various Orange County community events. Special outreach programs including many free performances for the public were conducted where FBT presented narrated ballet performances suitable for children by inviting over 20 schools in the area to the theatre. FBT showcased the talents of young dancers while building cultural awareness and providing education in the area of classical and contemporary ballet. awareness and providing education in the area of classical and contemporary ballet.
$639,262 spent$947,370 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $639,262.
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 $171k to $54k (−68%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER’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
FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER: 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 FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER?
- FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,688 to it, the largest being ROBERTA FREEMAN COX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $52,688 in grants to FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER?
- ROBERTA FREEMAN COX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER 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 2017–2025), 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