California · Nonprofit
Oakland Ballet Company
Oakland Ballet Company (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,198 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $531k
- Net assets
- $-64194
What Oakland Ballet Company does
Mission
Oakland Ballet Company's mission is to inspire the community by keeping the tradition of ballet exciting, vibrant and accessible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Oakland Ballets annual season includes 3-4 distinct performance programs with approximately 20 performances total throughout the East Bay - spanning from Oakland, to Livermore, to San Jose - along with tours of select repertory throughout the country. Annual performance programs include: Luna Mexicana (October/November): a celebration of Dia de los Muertos and Latinx arts and culture. Graham Lustigs The Nutcracker (December): a holiday classic is a holiday tradition for many community members. Dancing Moons Festival (March/April): this program presented in partnership with the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, celebrates choreographers, dancers, and artists of AAPI heritage. Spring Repertory Program (May/June): OBCs annual repertory program is curated by Artistic Director Graham Lustig - featuring different repertory, classic story ballets, new works, and/or collaborations with other artists and arts groups. 2024-2025 performances: - 6 public performances with 8,646 attendees. 4 in theater student performances with 3,671 attendees
$859,480 spent$372,530 earned by the program94% of program spendingOBC Operates a summer academy dedicated to training the next generation of aspiring young dancers.
$33,861 spent$23,488 earned by the program4% of program spendingIn addition to professional performances, OBC is committed to ensuring arts education is available Oakland and East Bay schools and students. Our Discover Dance program is aimed at exposing youth to the art of dance through a comprehensive dance education programming for local schools. All programs are free of cost for Oakland schools with Title I status. 13 in school assemblies with 3,869 attendees
$17,558 spent$8,500 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $910,899.
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 $127k to $316k (+149%).
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 4% · 2018 7% · 2019 3% · 2020 6% · 2021 27% · 2022 30% · 2023 17% · 2024 8% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of Oakland Ballet Company’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $38k → $41k.
10 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Oakland Ballet 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
Oakland Ballet Company has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 Oakland Ballet Company.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 27% · 2019 60% · 2020 49% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% — 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
30% of Oakland Ballet Company's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
55% of Oakland Ballet Company'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 $241k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Oakland Ballet Company's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Oakland Ballet Company receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 Oakland Ballet Company
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Oakland Ballet Company: 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 Oakland Ballet Company?
- Oakland Ballet Company (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,198 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Oakland Ballet Company have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $531,198 in grants to Oakland Ballet Company, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oakland Ballet Company?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oakland Ballet Company 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 24 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