Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SHANA SIMMONS DANCE
SHANA SIMMONS DANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,584 to it, the largest being NEW SUN RISING ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $189k
- Net assets
- $45k
What Shana Simmons Dance does
Mission
Shana Simmons Dance [Company] seeks to advance quality dance (the arts) and to engage audiences stemming from our core values to promote education, produce performances, and foster collaboration. THE MISSION: Shana Simmons Dance seeks advancement of quality dance performance and increased engagement with audiences and the community through financially accessible interactive and immersive productions. Our work relies heavily on partnerships and outreach to explore topics relevant to our community at large with a heavy focus on the integration of movement in education. The vision and passion of the company is to encourage movement in all bodies. SSD projects aim to draw audiences into modern dance in creative ways and highlight current societal topics for project-based work. These projects support communities by creating thoughtful performances and inspiring lives through dance and artistic vision. SSD works with nonprofits and projects dedicated to serving marginalized communities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Living Landscapes - Documentary Dance Film Project - Initial phases of this project are under way: Living Landscapes was both a dance film focusing on local nonprofit environmental organizations Allegheny Cleanways and Grounded. This documentary dance film utilized text from interviews to help tell the story of Pittsburgh's environmental concerns and expressed through dance and music. The dance film has been applied to multiple dance film festivals and will continue to try to be circulated to wider audiences. The presentation of Living Landscapes premiered as part of a family-friendly nature walk in the Audubon Society's Beechwood Farms Reserve. This nature walk encouraged patrons to walk the trails and experience live dance installation performances throughout the evening, then sit down for the film screening. Estimated attendance was 75 people, with a wider network of audience for the circulated dance film. Community members from multiple zip codes attended this event from children with special needs to elderly adults.
$11,715 spent73% of program spendingConstructed Sight Dance Film Festival - Live Dance with musical performances Event: The Constructed Sight Dance Film Festival highlighted 24 International dance films through both an online playlist over the course of two weeks and a curated Opening Night Event. The Opening Night Event featured live dance and music performances and was live streamed to an International audience. Approximately 75 tickets were sold to this event with a wide national range of audience. As part of the festival, an Artist Meet & Greet was facilitated online by Shana Simmons with approximately 15 artists from around the world in attendance as part of a networking hour. An online dance film workshop was also offered, facilitated by Utah Dance Film Festival's Katie Bruce. Additionally, we received $1,000 in Grant funding for this program to defray costs.
$3,223 spentof which $1,000 as grants20% of program spendingSacred Spaces Tour - Dance Performance Project in under-served communities project - Public Outreach performance: Commissioned by The Center for Civic Arts, 5 dancers performed in 6 churches as part of a tour in the underserved Wilkinsburg community of Pittsburgh. Wilkinsburg boasts one of the largest per capita church populations and the dancers performed in a wide variety of spaces for the community, working with the pastors or music directors of the churches to choose songs appropriate for their congregation and adding to the tour's vibrancy. All tours were free to the public and lasted from 10am-5pm.
$1,200 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,138.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $62k to $45k (−27%).
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.
38% of SHANA SIMMONS DANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $10k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SHANA SIMMONS 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
SHANA SIMMONS DANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 SHANA SIMMONS DANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 47% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of SHANA SIMMONS DANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
100% of SHANA SIMMONS DANCE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
SHANA SIMMONS DANCE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like SHANA SIMMONS DANCE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
53%
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 SHANA SIMMONS DANCE: 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 SHANA SIMMONS DANCE?
- SHANA SIMMONS DANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,584 to it, the largest being NEW SUN RISING ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHANA SIMMONS DANCE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $188,584 in grants to SHANA SIMMONS DANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHANA SIMMONS DANCE?
- NEW SUN RISING is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHANA SIMMONS DANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 8 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