Georgia · Nonprofit
Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc
Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,691 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($196,528). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $275k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $137k
What Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc does
Mission
To train young people to dance and to provide public performances
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Trained over 50 young dancers in the art of classical ballet to promote excellence based upon the highest standards of professionalism and integrity and provide the youth with life long values
$246,717 spentof which $17,655 as grants$189,885 earned by the program92% of program spendingProduced ballet performance to build commmunity relationships through public performances including outreach to schools, nursing homes and assisted living centers. These performances reached audiences of an estimated 5000 persons
$20,694 spent$41,660 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $267,411.
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 2023 to 2024, from $117k to $196k (+68%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 6% · 2022 3% · 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
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.
Board chair
Eric Schepis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6 → $80k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Theatre 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
95% 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 Theatre Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of Metropolitan Ballet Theatre 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. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Theatre Inc receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $220k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Metropolitan Ballet Theatre 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Metropolitan Ballet Theatre 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 Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc?
- Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,691 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($196,528). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $219,691 in grants to Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $196,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 5 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