Illinois · Nonprofit
RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC
RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,227,439 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($438,150). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $839k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $-442239
What Red Clay Dance Company Inc does
Mission
Red Clay Dance Company is a Black, female-led, 501 (c)(3) tax exempt for-purpose organization that awakens "Glocal" Artivism through creating, performing, and teaching dances of the African Diaspora. Change that transforms socio-economic and cultural imbalances in our local and global community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Community Engagement and Education Department, consists of our signature Making the Artivist Apprenticeship Program , School/Community Education Partnerships and Corporate Workshops. Through these programs the organization reaches more than 2,500 Chicago students and 4,000 individuals and families annually. The program participants develop their dance and artivism skills while also building community in an engaging environment.
$435,931 spent$141,931 earned by the program45% of program spendingThe Professional Touring Company is Chicago's premier Afro-Contemporary dance company. It is a 9-member member ensemble that tours and performs locally, nationally and internationally. The choreographic work is designed by its Artistic Director and guest choreographers. The company also provides master classes and workshops while on tour as well as an annual Black History Month School matinee for local schools.
$426,538 spent$7,250 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe Making The Artivist program is a project-based, paid apprenticeship for youth ages 16-22 teaching them to active personal agency, analyze systems within a community and identify possible solutions to social challenges through art making.
$99,906 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $962,375.
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.
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 $513k to $1.2M (+125%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 11% · 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 37% · 2023 46% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Vershawn Sanders-Ward
CEO
Board chair
Catrina Franklin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $25k → $342k.
3 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC’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
RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC 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
59% 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 RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 56% · 2020 60% · 2021 51% · 2022 19% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
71% of RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $454k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC?
- RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,227,439 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($438,150). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,227,439 in grants to RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $438,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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