Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SHARP DANCE COMPANY
SHARP DANCE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,104 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($59,491). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Sharp Dance Company does
Mission
Educating the public about socially conscious issues through the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Home Season Performance: 20th Anniversary Performance SHARP Dance Company at the Mandell Theater in Philadelphia, PA. The performance was from 10/4/2025-10/5/2025. Attendance was 331 people. Performing regularly at home allows the company to build a loyal local audience. Viewers get to follow the dancers' growth and company's evolving repertoire over time, deepening appreciation for dance as an art form.
$24,891 spent58% of program spendingAiken SC Performance Tour on April 21-23. A variety of work was performed. Attendance was approximately 150 people. Through this performance, we made connections with the university arts community
$11,578 spent27% of program spendingLocal community performances creating exposure to the arts. Sharp Dance Company performed 9/13/25 at the Kimmel Theaters in Philadelphia as part of Arts Fest Philly. The Company also perfomed in Jenkintown, PA on 9/21/25.
$1,590 spent4% of program spendingThe SHARP Dance Company held its 2025 Professional and Pre-Professional Summer Intensives in July. The Professional Intensive ran from July 28-30, while the Pre-Professional Intensive took place from July 23-25. Both programs featured dance classes and workshops, with the pre-professional intensive culminating in a studio performance with the SHARP Dance Company on July 31. These classes allow education and exposure of dance to students considering a future in dance. With the conclusion of a studio performance, SHARP aims to reach new audience members to the arts.
$5,177 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,236.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $47k to $11k (−77%).
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.
57% of SHARP DANCE COMPANY’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SHARP DANCE COMPANY’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
SHARP DANCE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 SHARP DANCE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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 SHARP DANCE COMPANY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613 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
SHARP DANCE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SHARP DANCE COMPANY
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
31%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHARP DANCE COMPANY?
- SHARP DANCE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,104 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($59,491). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHARP DANCE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,104 in grants to SHARP DANCE COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHARP DANCE COMPANY?
- THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $59,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHARP DANCE COMPANY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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