New Jersey · Nonprofit
SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET
SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,263 to it, the largest being VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC ($245,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $692k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $260k
- Net assets
- $-122447
What School of the Garden State Ballet does
Mission
School of the Garden State Ballet provides a year-round program of professional dance training, which is run under the guidance and inspiration of qualified instructors; the program is designed for the pleasure and development of all age groups and is available in newark, randolph, and rutherford, new jersey locations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The dance school conducts classes in ballet, modern dance, jazz and other related subjects to children throughout new jersey.
$687,485 spentof which $615,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $687,485.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $10k to $134k (+1216%).
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.
5% of SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 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
Jody Jaron
Executive director / teacher
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $35k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET’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
SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 87% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET: 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 SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET?
- SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,263 to it, the largest being VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC ($245,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $260,263 in grants to SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET?
- VICTORIA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL OF THE GARDEN STATE BALLET find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 4 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