Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY
MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,953 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $666k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $333k
What Moving Forward Contemporary Asian American Dance Company does
Mission
Dana tai soon burgess dance company is a modern dance company that performs dances that uplift, inspire, and bring new insights to seasoned dance lovers and new audiences alike in washington, dc, around the united states, and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We promote public engagement through our free of charge and reduced ticket priced performances at theaters and museums and educational programming which serves over 7,000 audience members each year, 5,000 in the dmv and 2,000 nationally. Our educational programs include lecture demonstrations at public and private schools, at lifelong learners communities, and at libraries among others. We also provide educational booklets to support students and teachers.origins: young choreographers, which offers the opportunity to those interested in choreography to have works reviewed by dana tai soon burgess and invited studio audiences. We promote dance education as the curricular advisor for the dcps school without walls dance program and as the directors of the lower, middle and high school modern dance programs at the independent georgetown day school (gds). This year we expanded our teaching to the maryland youth ballet in silver spring, maryland.
$521,004 spent$198,296 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $521,004.
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 2020 to 2021, from $378k to $555k (+47%).
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 23% · 2018 16% · 2019 20% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 26% · 2024 20% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $14k → $88k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE 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
MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
56% 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 MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 55% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 36% · 2023 34% — 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
67% of MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
56% of MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE 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 $194k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $246k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY has grown faster 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
Government funding MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
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 MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY?
- MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,953 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $439,953 in grants to MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 10 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