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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $310 to it, the largest being EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION ($310). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$116k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$310
Net assets
$69k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Southern Association of Dance Masters Inc does

Mission

To promote children's talents and fine arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To raise awareness and appreciation of dance to both teachers and students and to enhance the quality of education by offering professional training and certification in the proper techniques of dance.

    $104,125 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,125.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($92k)2018 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 106 ($97k) Net assets 95 ($87k)2019 Revenue 97 ($89k) Expenses 103 ($94k) Net assets 89 ($82k)2020 Revenue 58 ($53k) Expenses 91 ($83k) Net assets 56 ($52k)2021 Revenue 15 ($14k) Expenses 13 ($12k) Net assets 58 ($54k)2022 Revenue 97 ($89k) Expenses 91 ($83k) Net assets 65 ($59k)2023 Revenue 141 ($129k) Expenses 155 ($142k) Net assets 51 ($47k)2024 Revenue 78 ($72k) Expenses 53 ($49k) Net assets 77 ($70k)2025 Revenue 127 ($116k) Expenses 128 ($117k) Net assets 76 ($69k)
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Revenue (127)Expenses (128)Net assets (76)Peer revenue range

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 $82k to $52k (−37%).

$92k
$87k
$82k
$52k
$54k
$59k
$47k
$70k
$69k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$282
’17
−$5k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$30k
’20
$2k
’21
$6k
’22
−$12k
’23
$23k
’24
−$1k
’25
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*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC’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.

Where its funders are

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.

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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

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC's revenue grew 27% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC?
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $310 to it, the largest being EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION ($310). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $310 in grants to SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC?
EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF DANCE MASTERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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