Minnesota · Nonprofit
REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS
REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,500 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($66,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $57k
What Revolution Dance Works does
Mission
Developing and performing new dance and performance works.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council awarded Mamas Ignite Collective for an in-person two-day creativity retreat focused on music, writing, collaborating, production, grant writing and content capture.
$10,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants20% of program spendingThe Minnesota State Arts Board awarded to celebrate 25 years of dance making in communities with performances and residencies in Ely, Morris, and New York Mills.
$17,656 spentof which $33,250 as grants36% of program spendingThe Metropolitan Regional Arts Council awarded April Sellers Dance Collective support for fostering audience engagement between shows with in person and online activities.
$21,145 spentof which $25,000 as grants43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,801.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3k to $38k (+1073%).
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.
100% of REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
April Sellers
Executive Director
Board chair
Scott Pakudaitis
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS’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
REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
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 REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS.
“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
REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
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
REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Government funding REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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.
Organizations like REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS: 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 REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS?
- REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,500 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($66,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $83,500 in grants to REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS.
- Who is the largest funder of REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $66,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS 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 2021–2025), 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