Missouri · Nonprofit
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION (Missouri) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,306,962 to it, the largest being MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,842,443). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Kansas City Ballet Association does
Mission
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kansas city ballet performances. 62,435 performance attendance. Kansas city ballet opened its 67th season with 'alice (in wonderland)' (october 11-20), (choreography by septime webre, music by matthew pierce). In december, kansas city ballet performed devon carney's holiday classic 'the nutcracker' with music by peter I. Tchaikovsky in two school, one sensory and twenty-three public performances (december 6-24). Each show is performed by the outstanding professional company of kansas city ballet with members of the kansas city ballet school and accompanied by the kansas city symphony. Kansas city ballet showcased contemporary ballet in an intimate setting with its 'new moves' series, featuring various emerging choreographers (january 30 - february 2). For its winter performance (march 21-30), kansas city ballet performed 'don quixote' (choreography by anna-marie holmes after marius petipa, music by ludwig minkus). Kansas city ballet concluded its 2024-25 performance season with a mixed repertoire program called 'fusion' (may 9-18). Selections included 'tulips and lobster' (choreography by annabelle lopez ochoa), 'celts' (choreography by lila york), 'in the middle, somewhat…
$6,976,097 spent$4,775,686 earned by the program72% of program spendingKansas city ballet school dance academy 2,665 people served. Providing excellence in dance training since 1981, kansas city ballet school has two campuses, downtown and in johnson county, serving the needs of pre-professional and recreational dance students, both children and adults. The academy offers classes for children ages 2-19 varying from creative movement, ballet, pointe, modern, jazz, contemporary, variations, conditioning, flamenco & more. We offer an adaptive dance program for children with mixed cognitive abilities as well as a daytime program for students who are looking to further their dance education even more. Students in the academy program have the opportunity to audition for company productions such as the nutcracker, and also participate in a spring school performance. Our pre-professional students also are eligible to participate in kansas city youth ballet (the performing ensemble of the school) and in competitions such as youth america grand prix and universal ballet competition. Each year kcbs offers a five-week summer intensive program, which attracts students from all over the country. Kansas city ballet's second company serves as an emerging…
$2,446,484 spentof which $174,030 as grants$1,836,339 earned by the program25% of program spendingKansas city ballet partnership and reach out and dance (road) programs. Youth and adults were impacted through a variety of programs offered by kansas city ballet's partnership and road departments. 4,464 grade school students attended 3 student matinee performances of 'the nutcracker', including 1,061 from title I schools. 874 audience members attended sensory-friendly nutcracker and alice (in wonderland) performances. The partnership department sponsored 81 different events throughout the year, including 17 community dance workshops (5,119 attended) and 7 second company informances (1,837 attended) placed in schools, senior living communities and other public spaces. In fy25 a total of 84 new reach out and dance (""r.o.a.d."") scholarship students were selected to come and study dance at kc ballet. 40 r.o.a.d. Scholar families attended two parent/guardian orientations. 200 people attended the r.o.a.d. Scholarship showcase performed by the r.o.a.d. Scholars for their families and teachers with a r.o.a.d. Scholar reception held with 48 r.o.a.d. Scholars in attendance. Kcb's 12 to 24 - week dance residency program in community schools taught by kansas city ballet teaching artist to…
$235,240 spentof which $19,400 as grants$20,276 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,657,821.
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 2024 to 2025, from $50M to $56M (+12%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 23% · 2022 27% · 2023 6% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
David Gray
Executive director
Board chair
Julia Irene Dennie-Kauffman
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $221k → $3.0M.
11 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 48% · 2019 26% · 2020 14% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
70% of KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
82% of KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
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 KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kcba Holdings LLC · disregarded
- OZ Ballet LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION?
- KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION (Missouri) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,306,962 to it, the largest being MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,842,443). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $13,306,962 in grants to KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION?
- MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,842,443 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 68 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