California · Nonprofit
Oceanica Ballet Inc
Oceanica Ballet Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($91). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $91
- Net assets
- $45k
What Oceanica Ballet Inc does
Mission
Oceanica Ballet Inc.'s vision is to unite people through the shared experience of dance performance as a reflection of our complex and diverse collective humanity. Our mission is to enliven the San Francisco Bay Area cultural landscape by (1) making professional-level ballet performances accessible and relatable to Bay Area audiences (2) enriching the artistic careers of locally-based, professionally trained dance artists of diverse ages, races, genders, sexual orientations, and body types and (3) creating innovative new ballet-based dance works, and interpreting classics in fresh and exciting ways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Live Theater Production: The company presented a live theater production at the College of San Mateo (CSM) Theatre with 2 performances of "The Headless Horseman + Viva La Vida," combining elements of Early American and Mexican folk traditions in professional ballet performances. Education/Outreach: The company presented a free world premiere performance of "Alicia in the Land of Wonders" at the invitation of the Ethnic Studies Dept of the College of San Mateo (CSM), California. This program involved a close collaboration with a CSM professor and was provided for the benefit of CSM students as well as the general public. The program consisted of two parts: a live performance, followed by Q&A with the artists. Total persons benefiting: 185. Education: The company contacted local dance schools and provided free seating for dance students and their families from South San Francisco Civic Ballet and Mexico Danza for the company's professional ballet production.
$118,884 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $118,884.
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 2023 to 2024, from $73k to $42k (−42%).
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.
86% of Oceanica Ballet Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Henry Lowman
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Oceanica Ballet 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Oceanica Ballet 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Oceanica Ballet Inc's revenue fell 27% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Oceanica Ballet 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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oceanica Ballet 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 Oceanica Ballet Inc?
- Oceanica Ballet Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($91). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Oceanica Ballet Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $91 in grants to Oceanica Ballet Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Oceanica Ballet Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oceanica Ballet 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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