Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY
METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,897 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($32,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $210k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $133k
What Metropolitan Ballet Company does
Mission
Metropolitan Ballet Company's mission is to provide performance training for pre-professional dancers, support emerging choreographers, and through performances, scholarships, and community outreach programs, promote a love and appreciation of dance. Serving a diverse community audience of more than 10,000 people annually, metropolitan is committed to ensuring that dance continues to be relevant, exciting and accessible for people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The pre-professional performing company imparts boys and girls ages 11-18 with valuable life and performance skills, and nurtures those students who wish to pursue a career in dance. Young dancers are exposed to technique and teaching by some of the dance world's most illustrious artists through master classes and workshops, and practice the art of performance in an annual season that presents both traditional and contemporary dance. Metropolitan also commissions new choreography from acclaimed and emerging artists, directly involving our young dancers in the creative process, and introducing new audiences to a developing art form. Students in the pre-professional program regularly earn scholarships to prestigious summer and year-round dance programs across america and abroad, and many of our alumni are performing professionally, including at san francisco ballet, pennsylvania ballet, cincinnati ballet, colorado ballet, charlotte ballet, on broadway, and more. Their rigorous classical training and many performance opportunities provide a framework for success, whether pursuing a career in the performing arts, college or other careers.
$86,760 spent$59,017 earned by the program52% of program spendingThe boys' scholarship program provides tuition-free dance training in all-male classes designed to enhance athleticism, flexibility and strength. The training also develops valuable life skills of teamwork, tenacity, and time management. Approximately 55 boys ages 7-18 enroll each year to study beginning, intermediate, and advanced ballet with distinguished male dancers, who serve as teachers and role models, while addressing boys' unique learning styles. Since 1999, metropolitan has provided more than $1 million in scholarship funds to boys, many of whom would not otherwise be able to afford classes.
$55,718 spent$5,545 earned by the program33% of program spendingThe kinetic literacy program (klp), in partnership with the school district of philadelphia since 2008, is a standards based, integrated academic program which combines visual, auditory, and kinesthetic methodologies to enhance and invigorate the math and english /language arts skills building for district students in kindergarten through 2nd grade. Given as on-site classroom instruction, during the school day, the program serves more than 450 k- 2nd grade elementary school students with 88 classes annually in three public schools. Curriculum for its two innovative components, reading moves me and m3 = math x music x movement is aligned with pennsylvania core standards and grounded in standards for mathematical practice. Klp students also attend a free, fully produced dance performance especially created for children each year, which incorporates literature that the children study in their classrooms.
$24,598 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $167,076.
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 2021 to 2022, from $151k to $119k (−21%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 14% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $19k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY’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
METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 70% · 2022 63% · 2023 37% — 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
11% of METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
52% of METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY'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 $64k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k 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
METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY is better cushioned than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY?
- METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,897 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($32,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $134,897 in grants to METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 17 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