New York · Nonprofit
HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER
HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,636 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $270k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Ht Dance Company Inc Chen Dance Center does
Mission
H.T. Dance Company Inc./Chen Dance Center's programs and activities reflect its ongoing mission to provide moving experiences in Asian-American arts and contemporary dance through artistic creation, arts education, and presentation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
H.T. CHEN & DANCERS - a modern dance company which has created a distinct Asian-American expression by embodying its cultural heritage. The dance company presents performances and educational programs to reach diverse audiences across the nation in public and private schools, theaters and community centers, serving inner city to rural communities, youth, families and seniors.
$234,250 spent$9,352 earned by the program87% of program spendingARTS EDUCATION - The company provides educational performances and follow-up workshops to citywide schools, colleges and community centers in New York City, as well as on tour nationally. Its K-12 dance curriculum titled Into the Heart of Chinatown-Hidden Voices was created for the NYC DOE is presented citywide and is available to schools nationwide on the DOE website. HTDCs Early Childhood Dance program, now in its 20th season, provides 200 Chinatown students a week with early childhood dance classes.
$34,836 spent$24,930 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $269,086.
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 2019 to 2020, from $568k to $868k (+53%).
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 12% · 2018 31% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% · 2024 41% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Rita Gail Johnson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $112k → $63k.
6 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER’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
HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 79% — 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 HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER: 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 HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER?
- HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,636 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $241,636 in grants to HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HT DANCE COMPANY INC CHEN DANCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 6 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