Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE
HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,505,525 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,305,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $994k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Hill Dance Academy Theatre does
Mission
Hill Dance Academy Theatre (hdat) is a cultural arts organization with the mission to provide students who want to dance an opportunity to do so in an environment steeped in the black traditions of dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
990 T Rental
$128,260 spent$92,269 earned by the program33% of program spendingOther including residencies
$127,881 spent$96,583 earned by the program33% of program spendingSpring season of instruction
$108,420 spent$43,317 earned by the program28% of program spendingSummer season of instruction
$17,386 spent$10,453 earned by the program4% of program spendingFall season of instruction
$5,589 spent$27,289 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $387,536.
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 2021 to 2022, from $583k to $2.7M (+366%).
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: 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Ayisha Morgan-Lee
Executive Director
Board chair
Sherlyn Harrison
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $49k → $498k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE’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
HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
36% 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 HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 65% · 2019 48% · 2020 31% · 2021 59% · 2022 42% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
98% of HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
33% 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 HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE: 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 HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE?
- HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,505,525 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,305,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $4,505,525 in grants to HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 22 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