Washington · Nonprofit
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,418,534 to it, the largest being FAIRVIEW FOUNDATION ($4,616,528). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Pacific Northwest Ballet Association does
Mission
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association's (PNB) mission is to set new standards for artistic excellence, innovation and creativity; attract the most talented dancers, choreographers, musicians, collaborative artists, staff and volunteers; educate and develop dance artists as well as enthusiasts; captivate a devoted, supportive, growing and diverse audience; and strengthen our financial and organizational foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pacific Northwest Ballet company (PNB) consists of 47 dancers and a live orchestra that annually present six repertory productions of full-length and mixed repertory ballets, and George Balanchine's The Nutcracker(R) at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall that are attended by more than 200,000 adults and children. PNB also performed on tour in Washington DC. Our programming reflects PNB's dedication to making ballet accessible to people of all ages and from all walks of life. We accomplish this by showcasing traditional ballet and innovative contemporary choreography, providing live orchestra music, offering behind-the-scenes experiences, and cultivating new generations of arts participants and enthusiasts through dance education and engagement.
$22,149,005 spentof which $38,196 as grants$14,636,427 earned by the program78% of program spendingPNB School is regarded as one of the preeminent ballet institutions in the nation, setting the standard for excellence in training. Our Professional Division and Summer Course attract and train talented students from around the United States and the world. The School offers a complete professional curriculum to about 900 students annually and plays an instrumental role in the developing the Company's distinctive style. Students perform in an end of the year performance, and with the company as needed. The School also offers recreational dance instruction. Scholarships totaling over $550,000 are offered to help attract and retain promising young artists. The School has a faculty of 32 instructors and 24 piano accompanists at two locations.
$5,689,668 spentof which $33,661 as grants$4,760,109 earned by the program20% of program spendingPacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) Community Education program reaches nearly 20,000 community members, including students, teachers, and families through in-school programming, visits to PNB studios, specially-priced student matinees, and community partnerships. We offer residencies for students grades Pre-K to 12, as well as teacher workshops, training and curriculum development. PNB's general audience education includes studio previews and discussions with choreographers and artists.
$349,176 spent$112,426 earned by the program1% of program spendingPacific Northwest Ballet Conditioning uses the Pilates method to help people from all walks of life strengthen and sculpt their bodies. The Pilates sessions develop core strength and stability, increase flexibility, and work for any fitness level.
$106,339 spent$144,121 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,294,188.
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 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $28M (+54%).
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 1% · 2018 6% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 32% · 2023 2% · 2024 8% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Ellen Walker
Executive Director
Board chair
Toni Hoover
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.9M.
24 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pacific Northwest Ballet Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 funders by total. 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
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
54% 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 28% · 2019 27% · 2020 11% · 2021 25% · 2022 34% · 2023 28% — 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
37% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
82% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 27 funders to 44 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $280k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$280k
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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pacific Northwest Ballet Foundation · exempt
- Song & Dance LLC · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION?
- PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,418,534 to it, the largest being FAIRVIEW FOUNDATION ($4,616,528). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $23,418,534 in grants to PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION?
- FAIRVIEW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,616,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 103 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