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Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School

Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,951 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($87,530). 2 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.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$108k
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($990k) Expenses 100 ($905k) Net assets 100 ($336k)2018 Revenue 98 ($972k) Expenses 106 ($963k) Net assets 103 ($345k)2019 Revenue 112 ($1.1M) Expenses 114 ($1.0M) Net assets 124 ($415k)2020 Revenue 115 ($1.1M) Expenses 113 ($1.0M) Net assets 159 ($534k)2021 Revenue 69 ($687k) Expenses 86 ($778k) Net assets 132 ($444k)2022 Revenue 117 ($1.2M) Expenses 106 ($961k) Net assets 192 ($645k)2023 Revenue 164 ($1.6M) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 325 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 142 ($1.4M) Expenses 151 ($1.4M) Net assets 336 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 176 ($1.7M) Expenses 162 ($1.5M) Net assets 415 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (176)Expenses (162)Net assets (415)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 19% · 2022 9% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
17
$9k
18
$71k
19
$119k
20
$91k
21
$201k
22
$446k
23
$37k
24
$269k
25
6.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $22k.

5 of 6 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 Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School’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

Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School.

81%
largest funder
94%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 99%growing more concentrated.

“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

100% of Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School: 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 Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School?
Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,951 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($87,530). 2 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 Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $107,951 in grants to Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $87,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Palo Alto Ballet Inc DBA Western Ballet Company and School 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.

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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing