Tennessee · Nonprofit
MOVES AND GROOVES INC
MOVES AND GROOVES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $902,985 to it, the largest being Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ($403,662). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $903k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Moves and Grooves Inc does
Mission
Our mission statement is to use the arts as a platform to engage youth in learning valuable life-skils, while creating opportunities for self-expression, self- empowerment and self-discovery
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Dance instruction & travel competition the award-winning moves & grooves (mag) dance studio is the ultimate in classical dance, using trendy dance styles coupled with modern dance techniques. The mag studio offers ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, and more for all ages and skill levels. Classes are open for pre-k-12th grade, with a wide range of classes to engage both beginner and advanced-level dancers. The mag dance studio focuses on developing techniques and teaches self- discipline, focus, precision, teamwork, and resilience to prepare students for the stage and for life. After school program the mag after-school program is offered in collaboration with metropolitan nashville public schools (mnps) and nashville after zone alliance (naza), with a shared goal of offering high-quality after-school programming for every child. The program provides an arts-integrated learning experience for elementary and middle school students in grades 2-8. Based on brain research, students are provided with multiple learning strategies to pique their interest and support their individual learning styles. Mag uses a project-based learning approach in connection with stem activities to encourage…
$153,617 spent$68,077 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $153,617.
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 2024 to 2025, from $396k to $2.1M (+420%).
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 73% · 2018 68% · 2019 68% · 2020 80% · 2021 88% · 2022 76% · 2023 72% · 2024 59% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MOVES AND GROOVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Ron Hodges
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $85k → $124k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 MOVES AND GROOVES 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
MOVES AND GROOVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 MOVES AND GROOVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 95% · 2019 75% · 2020 61% · 2021 25% · 2022 62% · 2023 83% — 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
45% of MOVES AND GROOVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
75% of MOVES AND GROOVES INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MOVES AND GROOVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MOVES AND GROOVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MOVES AND GROOVES 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
29% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOVES AND GROOVES INC?
- MOVES AND GROOVES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $902,985 to it, the largest being Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ($403,662). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVES AND GROOVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $902,985 in grants to MOVES AND GROOVES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVES AND GROOVES INC?
- Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) is the largest funder on record, with $403,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVES AND GROOVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing