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RAGAMALA DANCE

RAGAMALA DANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,262,174 to it, the largest being The Wallace Foundation ($794,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$892k
19/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Ragamala Dance does

Mission

Ragamala is the vision of mother-daughter south indian american artists ranee and aparna ramaswamy. Through multi-disciplinary dance works for the stage, engaging the community, and educating the next generation, ragamala epitomizes intercultural, immigrant narratives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program services include:performances locally and on tour (u.s. And u.k): presented 24 live performances at 10 venues in 10 cities, reaching a total audience of 6,634. Community engagement activities in our home community and on tour: conducted 33 in-person outreach activities at 30 sites in the twin cities and nationwide (including schools, universities, senior centers, dance schools, hospitals, community centers, places of worship, museums, and community festivals) reaching an audience of 6,823. See schedule o for additional program language.ongoing classes at the ragamala training center, with locations in minneapolis and rochester, minnesota: conducted 6 hours of group classes per week for 36 weeks of the year, and additional one-on-one classes for advanced students, for a population of 40 students aged 7 through adult.

    $759,217 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $759,217.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($606k) Expenses 100 ($742k) Net assets 100 ($307k)2018 Revenue 133 ($803k) Expenses 97 ($718k) Net assets 128 ($393k)2019 Revenue 119 ($722k) Expenses 105 ($777k) Net assets 110 ($339k)2020 Revenue 118 ($713k) Expenses 95 ($706k) Net assets 113 ($346k)2021 Revenue 105 ($633k) Expenses 72 ($538k) Net assets 144 ($441k)2022 Revenue 202 ($1.2M) Expenses 133 ($983k) Net assets 221 ($680k)2023 Revenue 125 ($754k) Expenses 119 ($881k) Net assets 180 ($553k)2024 Revenue 151 ($916k) Expenses 127 ($942k) Net assets 172 ($527k)2025 Revenue 225 ($1.4M) Expenses 135 ($999k) Net assets 291 ($892k)
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Revenue (225)Expenses (135)Net assets (291)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 2024 to 2025, from $694k to $976k (+41%).

$378k
$433k
$382k
$465k
$578k
$768k
$757k
$694k
$976k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 18% · 2019 13% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 32% · 2023 13% · 2024 13% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of RAGAMALA DANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$136k
’17
$86k
’18
−$54k
’19
$7k
’20
$95k
’21
$238k
’22
−$127k
’23
−$26k
’24
$365k
’25
9.0
months of
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.

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Listed121212151212141310
Joined·+2+0+6+2+3+3+4+0
No longer listed·20353153
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $60k → $486k.

9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 RAGAMALA DANCE’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

RAGAMALA DANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 RAGAMALA DANCE.

35%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 46% · 2019 33% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 62% · 2023 61% — 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.

How long its funders stay

39% of RAGAMALA DANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

RAGAMALA DANCE draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 7 states in all.

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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $548k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

RAGAMALA DANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding RAGAMALA DANCE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $245k on record.

Federal$245k
grants $245kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$245k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 7%Fundraising 17%

Governance

9
board members
78%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds RAGAMALA DANCE?
RAGAMALA DANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,262,174 to it, the largest being The Wallace Foundation ($794,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAGAMALA DANCE have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,262,174 in grants to RAGAMALA DANCE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAGAMALA DANCE?
The Wallace Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $794,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAGAMALA DANCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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