Illinois · Nonprofit
NAJWA DANCE CORPS
NAJWA DANCE CORPS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,903 to it, the largest being THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE ($132,096). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Najwa Dance Corps does
Mission
Performances are presented in auditoriums cultural centers colleges universities elementary schools festivals fairs museums and corporate events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Performances are presented in auditoriums, cultural centers, colleges, universities, elementary schools, festivals, fairs, museums, at corporate events and television for the purposes of earned income. Programs and projects include classes, workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations , mini concerts
$102,465 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,465.
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 $87k to $178k (+104%).
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.
79% of NAJWA DANCE CORPS’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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sheila Wilkins
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 NAJWA DANCE CORPS’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
NAJWA DANCE CORPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 NAJWA DANCE CORPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 50% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
NAJWA DANCE CORPS draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NAJWA DANCE CORPS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAJWA DANCE CORPS: 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 NAJWA DANCE CORPS?
- NAJWA DANCE CORPS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,903 to it, the largest being THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE ($132,096). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAJWA DANCE CORPS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $319,903 in grants to NAJWA DANCE CORPS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAJWA DANCE CORPS?
- THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE is the largest funder on record, with $132,096 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAJWA DANCE CORPS 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 7 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