North Carolina · Nonprofit
HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS
HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,283 to it, the largest being TSH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($14,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $311k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Hickory Ballet and Performing Arts does
Mission
To inspire and empower our community through classical ballet and the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hbpa serves pre-professional and recreational students by offering weekly performing arts classes, including classical ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, musical theatre, turns and leaps, contemporary, ballroom, and voice. Approximately 200 students are enrolled in instructional classes, and scholarships are available to dancers in need of financial support. Hbpa also reached underserved communities through a strategic partnership with centro latino, providing scholarships to hispanic/latinx students and spanish-language support from staff.
$230,684 spent$221,973 earned by the program91% of program spendingStudents participated in four mainstage productionswe are monsters, the nutcracker, alice in wonderland, jr, and cinderellawith cast sizes ranging from 20-90 children and youth. These productions reached approximately 4,500 audience members through public and school-based performances. School matinees of the nutcracker served over 1300 students and educators, and southwest primary school hosted a free in-school performance of we are monsters for 245 students. Public performances reached an additional 3000 audience members across all four productions. Additional performances included the hickory downtown association art crawl and oktoberfest. In july, approximately 50 summer campers enjoyed rehearsing and performing beetlejuice jr. During a week-long camp in collaboration with the hickory community theatre. Hbpa volunteers donated over 1085 hours to help bring our productions to life. In addition to the faculty and staff, hbpa contracted with 20 additional artists, including 4 visual artists from full circle arts, 1 performing guest artist from the university of north carolina school of the arts for cinderella, 6 guest teachers, and 1 student intern from uncsa.
$24,040 spent$29,172 earned by the program9% of program spendingOutreach efforts expanded hbpas reach beyond studio-based programming. The books to ballet and books to broadway series were presented 8 times at local libraries and expanded to hickory city pre-k classrooms, reaching a combined audience of 128 students. Our annual international dance day festival, featuring free master classes in a variety of styles and genres, was attended by 96 members of our community. Hbpa hosted two free public performances serving 274 audience members at union square, creating opportunities to engage families with limited access to traditional venues. The sensory-friendly performance of the nutcracker welcomed 57 attendees. It incorporated lighting, sound, and spatial modifications to accommodate individuals with disabilities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $254,724.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $54k to $171k (+217%).
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: 2022 36% · 2023 17% · 2024 6% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS’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. 4 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $39 → $3k.
2 of 5 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.
From the IRS filings of HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS’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
HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
86% of HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS has grown faster than half 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
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS?
- HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,283 to it, the largest being TSH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($14,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $37,283 in grants to HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS?
- TSH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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