New York · Nonprofit
ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC
ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $969,877 to it, the largest being THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($360,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $585k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $970k
- Net assets
- $-22372
What Rochester City Ballet Inc does
Mission
Rochester City Ballet's mission is to create inspiring, entertaining, and educational experiences through the art of dance while providing the highest level of artistic and technical excellence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Rochester city ballet's 2024/2025 season was a resounding success and included several performances of the nutcracker with the rochester philharmonic orchestra (rpo) at kodak theatre celebrating a 25 year partnership. Nutcracker performances were also held at fort hill performing arts center in canandaigua. There were over 150 children from the community who performed in the nutcracker including children with a hearing impairment. Rochester city ballet also performed as part of the rochester fringe festival, collaborated with the rochester philharmonic orchestra (rpo) for their orkidstra concert, partnered with the rochester institute of technology (rit) on their visionary performance and collaborated with the society for chamber of music in rochester to bring the ballet of anastasia to the rochester community. Two free sensory performances were offered to the community including nutcracker and anastasia. Community outreach included dance classes to students at hillside as well as various mini performances/meet and greets at schools and libraries. At the end of the 2025 fiscal year the company established a school of dance to further enhance the educational opportunities the…
$548,591 spent$300,016 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $548,591.
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 2018 to 2019, from $706k to $383k (−46%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 37% · 2022 17% · 2023 9% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $63k → $108k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ROCHESTER CITY BALLET 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
ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 76% · 2019 62% · 2020 44% · 2021 58% · 2022 34% · 2023 39% — 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
25% of ROCHESTER CITY BALLET 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
ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC: 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 ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC?
- ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $969,877 to it, the largest being THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($360,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $969,877 in grants to ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC?
- THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $360,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 23 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