Georgia · Nonprofit
MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC
MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC (Georgia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,455,769 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($2,835,933). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Moving in the Spirit Inc does
Mission
Using dance to positively transform the lives of children and teens in atlanta through dynamic programs that educate, inspire, and unite young people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stepping Stones is Moving in the Spirit's open-enrollment, recreational dance program for children ages 3-18. Offered onsite at our headquarters and at community partner sites across Atlanta, Stepping Stones provides one hour of age-appropriate dance instruction each week of the academic year. In 2024-2025, Stepping Stones served 194 students. Pre- and post-program assessments indicated demonstrable gains in pro-social behavior and dance literacy across the student body.
$976,268 spent$167,877 earned by the program64% of program spendingApprentice Corporation is Moving in the Spirit's co-ed intensive performance training program for teens ages 13-18, designed to develop leadership skills alongside advanced dance technique and choreography. Apprentice Corporation students have the opportunity to perform across metro Atlanta and attend professional conferences. Pre- and post-program assessments indicated improvements in both mental health and dance literacy across the cohort.
$372,339 spent$2,458 earned by the program24% of program spendingGirls Leading Our World is Moving in the Spirit's intermediate-level dance training program for girls ages 9-12. In this program, students strengthen their cooperation and leadership skills, alongside developing greater dance technique. Pre- and post-program assessments indicated improvements in mental health, dance literacy, and setting personal goals across the cohort.
$173,007 spent$5,268 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,521,614.
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 $8.0M to $12M (+52%).
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 9% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 3% · 2022 15% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $587k → $1.3M.
13 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 IN THE SPIRIT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. 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 IN THE SPIRIT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
47% 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 IN THE SPIRIT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 42% · 2019 32% · 2020 60% · 2021 40% · 2022 33% · 2023 23% — 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
35% of MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
89% of MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 IN THE SPIRIT INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 IN THE SPIRIT 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- A Space to Soar Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC?
- MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC (Georgia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,455,769 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($2,835,933). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $9,455,769 in grants to MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,835,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVING IN THE SPIRIT 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.
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 75 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