California · Nonprofit
Pointeworks
Pointeworks (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being DAVID C COPLEY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $-8773
What Pointeworks does
Mission
Pointeworks primary exempt purpose is to advance the performing arts by providing professional dancers choreographers and musicians with opportunities to create and present new work. The organization supports the development of original choreography particularly by female-identifying artists while producing high-quality performances. Pointeworks also engages the public through open rehearsals educational programs and accessible performances designed to expand community access to live dance and foster appreciation for the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pointeworks produced and presented professional dance performances featuring original choreography by emerging and established artists. The organization commissioned and staged new works employing professional dancers choreographers and musicians. Performances were presented to the public and supported by open rehearsals and community engagement activities increasing access to high-quality live dance. These programs provided paid opportunities for artists while engaging audiences and advancing the creation of new work.
$150,000 spent87% of program spendingProgram 2 Mentorship & Educational Programming - Pointeworks provided mentorship and educational opportunities for emerging dancers through professional-level classes open rehearsals and direct engagement with working artists. These programs offered participants access to the creative process career guidance and exposure to new choreography in a professional setting.The organization facilitated opportunities for early-career dancers to train alongside and learn from established professionals supporting artistic development and career advancement. These initiatives expanded access to high-quality dance education and fostered the next generation of artists.
$15,000 spent9% of program spendingProgram 3 Community Engagement & Access Initiatives - Pointeworks expanded access to the performing arts through community-focused programming including open rehearsals and accessible performance opportunities. These initiatives provided the public with behind-the-scenes insight into the creative process and reduced financial barriers to attending live dance. The organization engaged diverse audiences including first-time attendees and students fostering broader community participation and appreciation for the arts.
$8,270 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $173,270.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $20k to $20k (−0%).
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.
69% of Pointeworks’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Pointeworks’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 Pointeworks's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Pointeworks has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Pointeworks
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pointeworks: 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 Pointeworks?
- Pointeworks (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being DAVID C COPLEY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pointeworks have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to Pointeworks.
- Who is the largest funder of Pointeworks?
- DAVID C COPLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pointeworks 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 2024–2025), 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