Minnesota · Nonprofit
Mixtape Dance Mn
Mixtape Dance Mn (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,000 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Mixtape Dance Mn does
Mission
A dance organization focused on mentoring and professionalizing the next generation of Hip Hop choreographers and artists. We connect these artists with resources and teach them how to secure funding while building a thriving network in the Twin Cities. Education and preservation of Hip Hop dance practices and their local history is also part of our primary exemption.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
MIXTAPE 7 took place at the Luminary Arts Center in Minneapolis MN on June 21st and 22nd 2025. The event uniquely blended dance battles with choreographed dance pieces blurring the lines between where one form ended and the other began. To make the experience participatory and immersive the audience served as the judges for the battles. Before the event the organizers taught attendees how to judge through social media posts and in-person discussions. Once the event began the host explained the specific judging categories: musicality execution and creativity. Each night eight dancers competed in an elimination-style tournament advancing from the Top 8 to the Top 4 and then to the Finals. A DJ provided random music for the battlers. Between battles five choreographers presented original works accompanied by live music. This innovative format proved highly successful offering the public a clear window into dance battles while also showcasing Hip Hop dance theater pieces.
$51,360 spentof which $60,000 as grants99% of program spendingMIXTAPE finished up the Twin Cities Breaking Archive with a Media Reviewer reviewing the finished archive.
$667 spentof which $667 as grants1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,027.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $64k to $6k (−91%).
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.
95% of Mixtape Dance Mn’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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Mary Ellen Childs
Chair and Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Mixtape Dance Mn’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
Mixtape Dance Mn leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
100% 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 Mixtape Dance Mn.
“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
90% of Mixtape Dance Mn's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Mixtape Dance Mn runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 Mixtape Dance Mn
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mixtape Dance Mn: 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 Mixtape Dance Mn?
- Mixtape Dance Mn (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,000 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mixtape Dance Mn have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $67,000 in grants to Mixtape Dance Mn, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mixtape Dance Mn?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mixtape Dance Mn 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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