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Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute
Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,836 to it, the largest being TARGET FOUNDATION ($93,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $557k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $299k
- Net assets
- $181k
What Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute does
Mission
As the cornerstone of classical ballet training in Minnesota, MDT creates and inspires the next generation of classical and contemporary dancers and their enthusiasts through superior and inclusive dance education, performance, and academics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since MDT was founded in 1962 by dance pioneer Loyce Houlton, the organization has been the focal point of dance education and performance in the Twin Cities. MDT's mission states, "As the cornerstone of classical ballet training in Minnesota, Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) creates and inspires the next generation of classical and contemporary dancers and their enthusiasts through superior and inclusive dance education, performance, and academics." An MDT donor recently referred to the organization's impact by stating, "All local dance leads back to MDT."Since its founding, MDT has offered classical ballet and contemporary training, as well as performance opportunities to thousands of Twin Cities Metro youth and adults, ages four and up. The organization serves approximately 300 students in its adult and year-round programs and has reached thousands of youth through their outreach programs.Since MDT's programming is varied, it reaches a diverse audience. In this way, the organization has maintained a reputation for artistic excellence while fostering a welcoming environment for dancers of all backgrounds. For example, the 2025 Winter Showcase displayed 106 students to 491…
$327,047 spent$322,621 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $327,047.
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 $325k to $102k (−69%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 48% · 2022 38% · 2023 20% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute’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 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
Suzi Kim Scott
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute’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
Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 57% · 2023 54% — 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
33% of Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
77% of Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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
Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute: 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 Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute?
- Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,836 to it, the largest being TARGET FOUNDATION ($93,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $298,836 in grants to Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute?
- TARGET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $93,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Minnesota Dance Theatre & The Dance Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 8 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