Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC
JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,735,932 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($1,115,001). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Jean Appolon Expressions Inc does
Mission
Jean appolon expressions (jae) is a haitian folkloric and contemporary-infused dance organization that cultivates hope and healing to foster more expressive and socially just communities through professional performances, education, cultural experiences, and the celebration of the joy of movement for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community-centered dance classes and workshops: jae empowers community members to see themselves as dancers and storytellers. Jae is building a global dance community that works to advance cultural equity and social justice by engaging people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds - particularly black and indigenous people of color, and people who are experiencing poverty. Jae holds recurring and one-time classes, workshops and an annual retreat (based in the dominican republic) for its community members in the us, haiti, and the dominican republic.
$346,699 spent$104,673 earned by the program45% of program spendingProfessional dance company: jae's haitian contemporary dance company combines modern technique and haitian folkloric dance, bringing a new artistic vernacular to its audiences. With its dynamic repertoire, jae educates audiences about haitian culture, traditions, history, and current social and political issues.
$269,655 spent$64,711 earned by the program35% of program spendingYouth dance education programs: jae leads dance education classes through school-based partnerships and intensives, the summer dance institute, kids creative dance classes, a youth apprentice program, and steam (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) enrichment programs. These educational offerings take place across massachusetts and other u.s. Based cities as well as haiti and the dominican republic.
$154,088 spent$117,079 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $770,442.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $649k to $1.9M (+193%).
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: 2023 14% · 2024 49% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Meghan Mcgrath
Executive director
Board chair
Sahita Pierre-Antoine
Interim board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $500 → $607k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC’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
JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2020 43% · 2021 27% · 2022 62% · 2023 51% — 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 JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
59% of JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $198k on record — $130k federal, $68k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$130k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$68k
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 JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC?
- JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,735,932 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($1,115,001). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,735,932 in grants to JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,115,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 21 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