Louisiana · Nonprofit
MELANGE DANCE THEATRE
MELANGE DANCE THEATRE (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,663 to it, the largest being New Orleans Theatre Association Inc ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Melange Dance Theatre does
Mission
The Corporation is organized exclusively for, and shall operate exclusively for, educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future Federal Tax Code. The Corporation's purpose is to bring contemporary dance to the forefront and make contemporary dance accessible to New Orleanians in a number of ways. By promoting contemporary dance that as a meaningful, expressive narrative with strong musicality and collaboration with other art forms to engage and enrich the culture of the Louisiana, and more specifically, New Orleans community (the "Community"); By promoting contemporary dance as a rigorous activity for achieving physical and mental fitness and general well being among the community; By providing an opportunity for professional dancers to perform regularly, and learn, grow and craft high quality dance together.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Remount of the original production Love Letters of World War II. This production included about 40 artists and was attended by 440 people.
$70,320 spentof which $56,833 as grants92% of program spendingPremiered a new piece at the Anne Rice Vampire ball. Included 8 artists and was attended by a few hundred people.
$1,900 spent2% of program spendingRemounted a piece at the New Orleans Storming of the Sazerac event at the Roosevelt Hotel. Included 6 artists and was attended by fewer than 100 guests.
$814 spent1% of program spendingPremiered new pieces to original music by Kristin Diable at the BK House Rhythm and Roses series. Included 7 dancers and was attended by about 50 guests.
$1,949 spent3% of program spendingPremiered a new piece at the opening of the Le Pavillon hotel in New Orleans. Included 9 dancers and was attended by fewer than 100 people.
$1,447 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,430.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $5k to $9k (+73%).
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.
79% of MELANGE DANCE THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Alexa Lambert
Executive Director
Board chair
Michael Tebeleff
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $31k → $16k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MELANGE DANCE THEATRE’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
MELANGE DANCE THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MELANGE DANCE THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
98% of MELANGE DANCE THEATRE's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163 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
MELANGE DANCE THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MELANGE DANCE THEATRE
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 MELANGE DANCE THEATRE: 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 MELANGE DANCE THEATRE?
- MELANGE DANCE THEATRE (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,663 to it, the largest being New Orleans Theatre Association Inc ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MELANGE DANCE THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $107,663 in grants to MELANGE DANCE THEATRE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MELANGE DANCE THEATRE?
- New Orleans Theatre Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MELANGE DANCE THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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