California · Nonprofit
LISS FAIN DANCE INC
LISS FAIN DANCE INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($53). 1 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
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $53
- Net assets
- $726
What Liss Fain Dance Inc does
Mission
Research the impact of dance on the life of people of the san francisco area and educate the public about the results through classes, workshops, performances, public assistance and publications.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Liss Fain Dance and Z Space co-presented sold out performances at Z Space. In the spring, LFD taught a series of free outreach workshops to middle schoolers at 826 Valencia, a non-profit organization supporting andteaching creativity and writing to young students. The outreach program with 826 Valencia, which Ms. Fain designed and developed, has been ongoing since 2011. These workshops are not paid; the cost to Liss Fain Dance is covered through contributions and a grant from the Kellogg Foundation. In FY24, in addition to the workshops at 826 Valencia, the company is developing a new outreach program pre-professionals, using their personal stories as the foundation for movement pieces. In FY24 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts invited Liss Fain Dance to premiere an installation work as part of Art Week SF in 2026. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will present Liss Fain Dance, give the company an artist fee, and mount a retrospective of their work as part of the Yerba Buena Galleries. The board members remain the same, with the exception of Lynn Rankin who passed away in August of 2024.
$98,211 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,211.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5k to $1k (−78%).
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.
92% of LISS FAIN DANCE INC’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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $17.
1 of 1 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 LISS FAIN DANCE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LISS FAIN DANCE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53 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
LISS FAIN DANCE INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LISS FAIN DANCE 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
56%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LISS FAIN DANCE INC: 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 LISS FAIN DANCE INC?
- LISS FAIN DANCE INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($53). 1 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 LISS FAIN DANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $53 in grants to LISS FAIN DANCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LISS FAIN DANCE INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LISS FAIN DANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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