Indiana · Nonprofit
FORT WAYNE BALLET INC
FORT WAYNE BALLET INC (Indiana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,191,794 to it, the largest being EDWARD D & IONE AUER FOUNDATION MONARCH CAPITAL DAVID MEYER TRUSTEE ($650,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Fort Wayne Ballet Inc does
Mission
To feed the spirit and spark the imagination through the highest caliber professional and academy performances, dance training, and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fort wayne ballet is the longest continually running professional dance organization in the state of indiana. We serve the region through professional performances, dance training and community engagement. Our professional company is composed of 34 professional contracted dancers from all over the u.s and world over a 36 week performing season. Our training academy provides dance education to students of all ages, encompassing entry level movement through adult classes. It is one of the premiere professional training programs in indiana. In the fall of 2020, the academy became certified in the american ballet theatre (abt) curriculum and is one of eight fully-certified academies in the world to be aligned with abt. Our professional trainee program attracts students from across the midwest and the summer intensive program attracts students aged 13-20 from across the country.
$315,377 spent$275,239 earned by the program25% of program spendingFort wayne ballet's professional company consists of twenty four dancers representing the united states, japan, mexico and uzbekistan and is supplemented by six trainee dancers. The season includes three main stage performances from classic masterworks to contemporary premiers, three contemporary repertoire performances, and an intimate in studio series where patrons are immersed into the programming. The organization is committed to being actively involved in collaborative programming with other arts organizations. Community engagement and service is a significant part of the ballet's mission and includes sensory friendly productions of its main stage performances, training residencies in the region's school systems, performances in community festivals and performances outside the region. The ballet has performed its nutcracker outside of the region and has represented the fort wayne community internationally.
$949,305 spent$353,843 earned by the program75% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,264,682.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $2.8M (+14%).
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 2% · 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of FORT WAYNE BALLET INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $89k → $401k.
7 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $560k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT WAYNE BALLET INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FORT WAYNE BALLET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
FORT WAYNE BALLET INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 45% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 82% · 2022 16% · 2023 45% — 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
59% of FORT WAYNE BALLET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
61% of FORT WAYNE BALLET INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k 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
FORT WAYNE BALLET INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 FORT WAYNE BALLET 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 FORT WAYNE BALLET INC?
- FORT WAYNE BALLET INC (Indiana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,191,794 to it, the largest being EDWARD D & IONE AUER FOUNDATION MONARCH CAPITAL DAVID MEYER TRUSTEE ($650,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT WAYNE BALLET INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,191,794 in grants to FORT WAYNE BALLET INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT WAYNE BALLET INC?
- EDWARD D & IONE AUER FOUNDATION MONARCH CAPITAL DAVID MEYER TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT WAYNE BALLET INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 34 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