Arizona · Nonprofit
SILAMBAM PHOENIX
SILAMBAM PHOENIX (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,138 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($93,917). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $188k
What Silambam Phoenix does
Mission
Silambam Phoenix is a non-profit organization, formed in May 2000 for the promotion and development of the arts, by imparting artistic education and promoting talent in the performing arts. Silambam is committed to promoting artists in the field of Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance) and other forms of classical dance and music. Silambam also strives to utilize the arts to serve the commuting at large.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
2025 was Silambam Phoenix's 25th anniversary year. We had a whole series of events presented, in addition to our regular programming. All additional events also aligned with the organization's mission. During 2025. Silambam Phoenix presented the solo debut performances of 8 students, between January and June. We began the year with an invited performance at the Peoria Center for Performing arts. 6 students presented a 90 minute performance to an audience of about 125. The anniversary celebrations started off with a solo performance by the artistic director, Dr. Srimathy Mohan (audience of 200 community members), with live orchestra. The major 3 day anniversary celebration saw the presentation of 3 new dance productions. Day 1 featured a group production titled 'Bandhavam' b the artistic director and three other artistic directors from sister dance institutions in Columbus, OH, Houston, TX and Chennai, India. This production also featured 8 silambam students had had an audience of 150. Day 2 was a presentation titled 'Dasa Mahavidya' by the senior students (most of them are currently working professionals who returned to celebrate the silver jubilee) of Silambam Phoenix. Day 2 had…
$126,320 spentof which $42,269 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $126,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $224k to $119k (−47%).
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.
70% of SILAMBAM PHOENIX’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $42k → $141.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 SILAMBAM PHOENIX’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
SILAMBAM PHOENIX leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 SILAMBAM PHOENIX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 43% · 2021 97% · 2022 66% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.
“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
91% of SILAMBAM PHOENIX's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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.
Against its field
SILAMBAM PHOENIX has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SILAMBAM PHOENIX receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 SILAMBAM PHOENIX
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SILAMBAM PHOENIX: 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 SILAMBAM PHOENIX?
- SILAMBAM PHOENIX (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,138 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($93,917). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SILAMBAM PHOENIX have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $130,138 in grants to SILAMBAM PHOENIX, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SILAMBAM PHOENIX?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $93,917 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILAMBAM PHOENIX find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing