Texas · Nonprofit
FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS
FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,167 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($126,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $212k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $232k
What Frame Dance Productions does
Mission
Our mission is to offer innovative, research-backed, body-positive dance education and performance for all ages, with a focus on early childhood development as the foundation for creativity, growth, and lifelong artistry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General program - our mission is to develop dance-makers who can boldly share their unique point of view with the world, not simply replicate the instructor. We teach technique and choreography while strengthening and nurturing our dancers' creativity and authenticity. Since its inception, frame dance has produced and performed over 40 site-specific pieces in collaboration with some of houston's most iconic and unique venues, including the metrorail and the downtown tunnels. Frame dance has partnered with or been presented by metro, houston museum of natural sciences, houston parks board, texas asia society, plant it forward farms, core dance, rice university, houston ballet, 14 pews, aurora picture show, contemporary arts museum.
$93,336 spent$4,537 earned by the program51% of program spendingYoung dancer program - frame dance is a thought leader in early childhood dance education, inspiring the next generation of movers, makers, and world changers. We believe in developing the whole dancer, teaching critical life skills such as creative thinking, leadership, collaboration, and resilience through our holistic, engaging, age-appropriate and technically sound dance curriculum. Our mission is to develop dance-makers who can boldly share their unique point of view with the world, not simply replicate the instructor. We teach technique and choreography while strengthening and nurturing our dancers' creativity and authenticity.
$38,815 spent$71,053 earned by the program21% of program spendingAdult ensemble - the frame dance ensemble is a year-long program for dancers of all ages and backgrounds who want to train, create, and perform inside a committed, multigenerational community of artists. Under the direction of lydia hance, with technique classes led by ashley horn, jamie williams, and lindsay cortner (and guest artists), dancers spend the season developing their craft through classes, dancer wellness workshops, and performance opportunities around houston.
$16,881 spent$14,735 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther programs (camp, community outreach, professional development, frame x frame, mise en scene)
$35,575 spent$63,174 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,607.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $160k to $218k (+36%).
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.
27% of FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $30k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS’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
FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
84% of FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $33k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS
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.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS: 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 FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS?
- FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,167 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($126,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $201,167 in grants to FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $126,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRAME DANCE PRODUCTIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing