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Nichole Canuso Dance Company

Nichole Canuso Dance Company (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,740 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($429,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$105k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$960k
Net assets
$284k
6/7 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Nichole Canuso Dance Company does

Mission

The Organization creates movement-based works that expore the complexity of human experience. Using subtle gesture, explosive movement, humor, and interactive design, the organization develops projects at the crossroads of movement, visual art, and theater.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Create movement-based works that expore the complexity of human experience. Using subtle gesture, explosive movement, humor, and interactive design, the organization develops projects at the crossroads of movement, visual art, and theater.

    $159,801 spent$105,089 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,801.

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 ($53k) Expenses 100 ($235k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2018 Revenue 615 ($329k) Expenses 52 ($122k) Net assets 273 ($332k)2019 Revenue 274 ($146k) Expenses 62 ($145k) Net assets 199 ($243k)2021 Revenue 206 ($110k) Expenses 132 ($309k) Net assets 165 ($201k)2022 Revenue 439 ($235k) Expenses 61 ($143k) Net assets 252 ($308k)2023 Revenue 395 ($211k) Expenses 72 ($170k) Net assets 286 ($349k)2024 Revenue 514 ($275k) Expenses 82 ($193k) Net assets 353 ($430k)2025 Revenue 197 ($105k) Expenses 107 ($251k) Net assets 233 ($284k)
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Revenue (197)Expenses (107)Net assets (233)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 2017 to 2018, from $129k to $337k (+161%).

$129k
$337k
$406k
$217k
$317k
$353k
$434k
$290k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2021 9% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of Nichole Canuso Dance Company’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$181k
’17
$206k
’18
$598
’19
−$199k
’21
$92k
’22
$41k
’23
$81k
’24
−$146k
’25
12
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.

2018201920212022202320242025
Listed7766544
Joined·+0·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0·0110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $164k.

From the IRS filings of Nichole Canuso 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

Nichole Canuso Dance Company leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

31% 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 Nichole Canuso Dance Company.

45%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 62% · 2022 59% · 2023 74% — 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

81% of Nichole Canuso Dance Company's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

MA
PA
DC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Nichole Canuso Dance Company holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−139% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 21%Fundraising 15%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Nichole Canuso Dance Company?
Nichole Canuso Dance Company (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,740 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($429,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Nichole Canuso Dance Company have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $959,740 in grants to Nichole Canuso Dance Company, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Nichole Canuso Dance Company?
THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $429,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Nichole Canuso Dance Company find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing