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NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT
NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,225,340 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($487,382). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $979k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $942k
What Northwest Professional Dance Projec Dba Northwest Dance Project does
Mission
Nw dance project celebrates, supports, and represents excellence in dance. Nw dance project is dedicated to creating and performing inspired, original contemporary dance works from the field's most talented choreographers from around the world and to providing the finest dance training available for all. We perform, educate, create, cultivate, and strive for diversity, equity, and inclusion while engaging and deepening public appreciation and support of dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
- 201st season - maintained and managed our professional performance company of diverse dancers (eight employee dancers) and raising salary levels for all. - raised salaries for all staff members and maintained all employee's benefits. - created and premiered twelve new dance works from twelve choreographers. - conducted eight unique, ticketed public performances in three different venues. Four of the shows were performed by our company of employee dancers over multiple nights. The remaining four shows were the conclusions of dance education and training programs. - held our four-week summer professional and pre-professional dance training programs (move + summer dance platform) for 48 aspiring dancers. - maintained our unique and innovative dancers of color initiative (doci) which provides responsive and flexible financial and other forms of direct support to young dancers of color participating in our educational programming. - enriching the lives of our local constituents with dance, movement, and creative expression through educational and outreach programing for adults and youth, including offering 34 classes per week and our dance moves outreach program serving underserved…
$1,282,850 spent$638,382 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,282,850.
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 $1.5M to $2.0M (+32%).
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.
29% of NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT’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. 7 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.
Chief executive
Scott D Lewis
Exec dir/pre
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $191k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT’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
NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 40% · 2019 71% · 2020 43% · 2021 40% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% — 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
33% of NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
64% of NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $142k on record — $40k federal, $102k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$102k
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 NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT?
- NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,225,340 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($487,382). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,225,340 in grants to NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $487,382 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 21 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