California · Nonprofit
SPECTORDANCE
SPECTORDANCE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,330 to it, the largest being Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Spectordance does
Mission
SpectorDance's mission is "To Create and Present Dance that Makes a Difference!" Everything we do-whether creative, pedagogical, community-oriented, or even managerial-serves this greater purpose. This mission uniquely defines all our work. Our vision is "A world where everyone is connected, informed, and inspired through the beauty and power of dance." We live in a world that has become divided in many ways: wealthy and poor, urban and rural, politically progressive and conservative, educated and uneducated. We see dance, grounded in the human body we all share, as a means of coming together communally. Moreover, we see dance as a vehicle for education and enlightenment. It can convey the truth amid the flurry of falsehoods. Finally, dance is not passive-for the audience as well as the dancer. Dance at its best can inform, build deep empathy, motivate and inspire action, and transform both participants and viewers. It is not just contemplation or artistic pleasure.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Creating and Presenting the Ocean Trilogy Project. This project was inspired by a ten-year collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Our creative process begins with filmed interviews with renown ocean science experts. Selected sound bites from these interviews and related visual imagery are woven into a music mix. This forms a foundation for the choreography. This style is both aesthetically compelling and intellectually grounded. In 2024 and 2025, we presented the Ocean Trilogy Project for 3,500 audiences at the California Travel Summit at the Monterey Visitors Center, and 20 free performances presented through the Salinas Board of Education that reached over 5,000 young audiences in low-income parts of our community. This project bridged the arts and sciences, provided high quality creative opportunities for youth in under-resourced parts of our community, and stimulated rich community dialogue about the importance of the ocean, our most important natural resource. Along with the performances, we also offered movement workshops exploring themes from the piece.
$45,000 spentof which $40,000 as grants56% of program spendingPresenting the 4th annual Ocean Arts Festival, featuring ocean-themed visual and performing art created by artists under the age of 14. This family-friendly, free event was based on a long-term partnership with the Monterey Museum of Art. Our goal was to inspire youth to merge their passion for art with their passion for ocean health and to nurture Ocean Arts Leaders. This event featured 250 artists from all over Monterey County and attracted over 350 audiences who enjoyed a day of Art for the Ocean!
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants25% of program spendingPresenting the 1st annual King City Dance Week featuring contemporary dance performances and movement workshops with visiting guest artists from all over the State of California. King City is primarily a low-income community with 89% of its residents working in agriculture. The beautiful and historic Stanton Theater is a great asset to this community. SpectorDance has offered free performances in this community for over 15 years. Along with the King City Dance Week, we also offered contemporary dance workshops. The first King City Dance Week reached more than 1,000 audiences. King City youth are eager for this exposure. SpectorDance sees a need and an opportunity to bring more contemporary dance to this community. We have been "planting seeds" for this kind of programing, and we are now delighted to see our efforts "taking root."
$15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,000.
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 2020 to 2021, from $196k to $65k (−67%).
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.
75% of SPECTORDANCE’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. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Dr Roger D Stewart
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $37k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of SPECTORDANCE’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
SPECTORDANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 56% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% — 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
99% of SPECTORDANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
SPECTORDANCE's revenue fell 76% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SPECTORDANCE
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.
Public support
99%
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 SPECTORDANCE: 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 SPECTORDANCE?
- SPECTORDANCE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,330 to it, the largest being Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECTORDANCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $165,330 in grants to SPECTORDANCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECTORDANCE?
- Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECTORDANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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