North Dakota · Nonprofit
NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET
NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,152 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $705k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $885k
What Northern Plains Ballet does
Mission
To inspire the appreciation of dance through artistic excellence and to enrich the cultural landscape of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Northern Plains Ballet focuses in 3 major areas of dance education. Dance training for students ages 3 to adult in ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, musical theater and modern dance styles. In addition to regularly scheduled classes, npb also holds adult social dance workshops as well as classes for parents and their children ages 10 months to 3 years. The average number of classes taken per week increases as a student progress through the dance curriculum. Students have been accepted in and attended nationally recognized summer programs for promising young dancers and into nationally recognized university programs. Annually, npb presents a full performance season with four main productions providing opportunities for bismarck area audiences to experience and understand the power of dance performance in communicating aspects of the human experience, while simultaneously providing students enrolled in the academy with opportunities to gain performance experience in professionally produced productions. The two annual full length ballet productions feature an average of 125 performers and presented to sold out auditoriums, while the two mixed repertoire performance average 35 performers…
$449,800 spentof which $5,694 as grants$585,675 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $449,800.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $1.5M (+9%).
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: 2021 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Darren Schmidt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $7k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET’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
NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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
86% of NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET?
- NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,152 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $49,152 in grants to NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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