California · Nonprofit
NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC
NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,602 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($151,523). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $413k
- Net assets
- $750k
What New Ballet School Downtown San Jose Inc does
Mission
Providing unparalleled training for serious pre-professional ballet students. Training at the new ballet focuses on developmentally appropriate instruction and dancer health for each student.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and student service the new ballet school is dedicated to fostering the tradition and practice of classical ballet in san jose and silicon valley. With a full profressional faculty certified in the american ballet theatre national training curriculum, the ballet school combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development. Our goal is to make the benefits the serious study of classical performing arts available to everyone in our community.
$674,961 spent$703,393 earned by the program59% of program spendingPerformances diverse students from our local neighborhoods and beyond benefit from expert ballet training at the new ballet school, enjoying classes in large well-equipped studios accompanied by live piano. Performance opportunities through the year at local theaters, at silicon valley businesses, at local public schools and throughout our community provide artistic growth for our students and exposure to the art form of ballet to our community.
$478,688 spent$400,340 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,153,649.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $3.6M (+209%).
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 0% · 2020 4% · 2022 7% · 2023 14% · 2024 9% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $56k → $66k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE 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
NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% 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
83% 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 NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 66% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% — 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
80% of NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $294k 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
NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC: 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 NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC?
- NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,602 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($151,523). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $412,602 in grants to NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $151,523 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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