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MUNTU DANCE THEATRE

MUNTU DANCE THEATRE (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,212,695 to it, the largest being IFF ($425,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$345k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$395k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Muntu Dance Theatre does

Mission

The mission of Muntu Dance Theatre is to preserve and perpetuate the african aesthetic and its influence on world cultures, through the education and professional presentation of dance, music and folklore. Our goal is to share these important works.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Contracted performance as with each year since inception, muntu continues to receive booking requests for contracted performances from every state in the usa muntus repretation for providing professional and authentic african performances continues to win muntu invitations to perform globally as well. Ace program currently serves 15 school throughout the city. Muntus in-class interactive music and dance residencies convene twice weekly with students and typically run 1-15 weeks. At the end of each residency students perform for the school and community.

    $271,104 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Other dance and performing arts programs

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Contracted performance. The positive results of muntus work is the community schoold continues to confirm the value of arts as a part of the educational process and the social and cognitive development of the youth.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $271,104.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($211k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2018 Revenue 125 ($251k) Expenses 123 ($259k) Net assets 68 ($16k)2019 Revenue 124 ($249k) Expenses 122 ($256k) Net assets 37 ($9k)2020 Revenue 116 ($234k) Expenses 100 ($211k) Net assets 133 ($32k)2021 Revenue 372 ($747k) Expenses 160 ($336k) Net assets 1850 ($446k)2022 Revenue 342 ($687k) Expenses 350 ($736k) Net assets 200 ($48k)2023 Revenue 271 ($543k) Expenses 166 ($350k) Net assets 1062 ($256k)2024 Revenue 172 ($345k) Expenses 150 ($315k) Net assets 1639 ($395k)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (150)Net assets (1639)Peer revenue range

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 $59k to $451k (+664%).

$39k
$26k
$17k
$59k
$451k
$97k
$297k
$401k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 5% · 2020 12% · 2021 8% · 2022 16% · 2023 1% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of MUNTU DANCE THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
−$8k
’18
−$7k
’19
$23k
’20
$411k
’21
−$49k
’22
$193k
’23
$29k
’24
9.6
months of
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.

Chief executive

Tepaka Lunda

Executive director

Board chair

Sidney Dillard

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed66338899
Joined·+0+0+0+5+1+4+1
No longer listed·0300131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $121k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MUNTU DANCE THEATRE’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

MUNTU DANCE THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 MUNTU DANCE THEATRE.

35%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 78% · 2020 38% · 2021 73% · 2022 45% · 2023 73% — broadly stable.

“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

40% of MUNTU DANCE THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

64% of MUNTU DANCE THEATRE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MD
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MUNTU DANCE THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve9.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding MUNTU DANCE THEATRE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.

Federal$115k
grants $115kcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$115k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUNTU DANCE THEATRE: 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 MUNTU DANCE THEATRE?
MUNTU DANCE THEATRE (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,212,695 to it, the largest being IFF ($425,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MUNTU DANCE THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,212,695 in grants to MUNTU DANCE THEATRE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MUNTU DANCE THEATRE?
IFF is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MUNTU DANCE THEATRE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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