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SOCAL BALLET SCENE

SOCAL BALLET SCENE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,140 to it, the largest being LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL ($22,140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$108k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$15k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Socal Ballet Scene does

Mission

Supporting local dance artists and providing opportunities for the community to connect with them.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Supporting local dance artists and providing opportunities for the community to connect with them.

    $97,160 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,160.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$22k
funders
1
1
2

From the IRS filings of SOCAL BALLET SCENE’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

SOCAL BALLET SCENE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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

79% 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 SOCAL BALLET SCENE.

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

96% of SOCAL BALLET SCENE's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOCAL BALLET SCENE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCAL BALLET SCENE: 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 SOCAL BALLET SCENE?
SOCAL BALLET SCENE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,140 to it, the largest being LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL ($22,140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCAL BALLET SCENE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,140 in grants to SOCAL BALLET SCENE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCAL BALLET SCENE?
LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL is the largest funder on record, with $22,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCAL BALLET SCENE 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.

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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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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