Tennessee · Nonprofit
KINGSPORT BALLET
KINGSPORT BALLET (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,774 to it, the largest being EASTMAN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Kingsport Ballet does
Mission
The Kingsport Ballet is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and foster professional quality dance through education, performance, outreach, advocacy, and marketing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High-quality classical ballet instruction: from the avid ballet student aspiring to gain pre-professional experience to the student looking for a fun and enriching after-school activity, Kingsport Ballet offers great instruction in a positive, family atmosphere. Kingsport Ballet offers classical ballet instruction to students from around the east tennessee region, as well as virginia, kentucky, and north carolina.
$175,121 spent$148,253 earned by the program64% of program spendingProfessional-level, full-length productions: our productions are professional, full-length, and staged after the great world theaters such as the bolshoi and kirov ballets. Kingsport Ballet is proud to contribute to growing the arts in our region - from east tennessee to virginia and north and south carolina
$99,116 spent$72,821 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $274,237.
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 2022 to 2023, from $55k to $159k (+190%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2020 1% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 14% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of KINGSPORT BALLET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $41.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 KINGSPORT BALLET’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
KINGSPORT BALLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 87% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — 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
89% of KINGSPORT BALLET's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
KINGSPORT BALLET receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KINGSPORT BALLET
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 KINGSPORT BALLET: 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 KINGSPORT BALLET?
- KINGSPORT BALLET (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,774 to it, the largest being EASTMAN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KINGSPORT BALLET have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $14,774 in grants to KINGSPORT BALLET, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KINGSPORT BALLET?
- EASTMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KINGSPORT BALLET find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 4 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