California · Nonprofit
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,524 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($273,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $869k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center does
Mission
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center SADC builds and supports a vital and inclusive community for movers of all ages and styles. Founded in 1958, SADC provides dance education, institutional support for artists, a performance and rehearsal venue, and partnerships with other community-based organizations. SADC shares in the work of re-imagining and creating equitable and positive spaces for expression in the East Bay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center offers approximately 50 classes and workshops per week for beginners through professional adults. Our expanded offerings include 10 different styles and forms each week, from jazz to hip hop, to Bharatanatyam and belly dance. Adult students range from age 18 to over 90 years of age and we serve 450-500 adult learners each week through the program. All classes and instructors focus on the development of the whole person as well the teaching and learning of dance in a supportive, non-competitive environment. Moving together to build community and increase belonging are key to the program. Evidence from surveys, informal dialogue and assessments show that dancing together in a safe, supportive community increases physical, emotional and mental well-being for both the individual and the collective.
$651,763 spentof which $4,584 as grants$428,865 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe Youth Program at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center provides people ages 1.5 to age 18 with 60 classes each week in modern, jazz, hip-hop, ballet, creative movement and more. The program includes performance groups that engage in choreography or have work set on them by local professional choreographers. In the summer, SADC offers between 8-10 week-long camps and intensives for ages 5-18 so that youth can have an opportunity to immerse themselves in a dance experience, whether studying one particular form or a variety of forms over the course of a week. We engage over 30 teaching artists whose credentials range from professional dancers to college graduates and those with postgraduate degrees in dance, the arts and education. We provided dance programming for 500-550 youth throughout the fiscal year.
$581,015 spentof which $40,028 as grants$695,194 earned by the program39% of program spendingShawl-Anderson Dance Center's professional dance programming supports local and regional artists through performance opportunities, residencies, fiscal sponsorship and space rentals. These programs are year-round and cumulatively support the work of over 75 local choreographers and performers each year. The Queering Dance Festival is also one of the Centers key programs, which includes performances, panels, and classes each year. SADC uses its own dance studio theater space for presentations as well as other local spaces including CounterPulse in San Francisco and the Parker Electric Foundation in Oakland. Shawl-Anderson Dance Center has also continued its fiscal sponsorship program, supporting 30 small dance companies and independent artists in securing grants and donations to support, expand and present their work. These professional programs are part of an important ecosystem in the Bay Area that allows the work of emerging dance artists and small dance companies to be created and shared for the benefit of the public.
$255,317 spent$132,794 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,488,095.
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 $1.2M to $3.0M (+143%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 8% · 2021 31% · 2022 8% · 2023 20% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $110k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center’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
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 68% · 2020 58% · 2021 41% · 2022 45% · 2023 29% — 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
63% of Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
51% of Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center 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 Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center: 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 Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center?
- Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,524 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($273,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $868,524 in grants to Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $273,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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