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PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE

PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,798 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($5,717). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$45k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$8k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Providence Ballet Theatre does

Mission

To promote the arts, primarily dance

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promotion of the arts in the City of Providence and its surrounding areas primarily through dance

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($76k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2019 Revenue 68 ($51k) Expenses 101 ($64k) Net assets 45 ($11k)2020 Revenue 38 ($29k) Expenses 56 ($35k) Net assets 17 ($4k)2021 Revenue 32 ($24k) Expenses 21 ($13k) Net assets 63 ($15k)2022 Revenue 38 ($29k) Expenses 53 ($34k) Net assets 43 ($10k)2023 Revenue 95 ($72k) Expenses 105 ($67k) Net assets 65 ($15k)2024 Revenue 71 ($54k) Expenses 83 ($53k) Net assets 70 ($17k)2025 Revenue 60 ($45k) Expenses 84 ($53k) Net assets 36 ($8k)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (84)Net assets (36)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $24k to $11k (−55%).

$24k
$11k
$4k
$15k
$10k
$15k
$18k
$10k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

30% of PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’18
−$13k
’19
−$7k
’20
$11k
’21
−$5k
’22
$5k
’23
$1k
’24
−$8k
’25
2.7
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $70 → $381.

Funder
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'21
'22
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total
funders
1
2
1
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE’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

PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.

Where its funders are

87% of PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE'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 $851 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.

RI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE's revenue fell 40% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

RI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE: 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 PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE?
PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,798 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($5,717). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,798 in grants to PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $5,717 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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