California · Nonprofit
SPECTORDANCE
SPECTORDANCE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,330 to it, the largest being Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SPECTORDANCE's revenue fell 76% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Pebble Beach Company Foundationshared funderslocal
- Jason Mraz Foundationportfolio match
- Arts Council Santa Cruz Countyportfolio match
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.
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
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 46% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 194 organizations that share them.
- Pebble Beach Company Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- Jason Mraz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council Santa Cruz Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Danceusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Association of Blacks in Danceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Dance Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silicon Valley Createsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2wice Arts Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SPECTORDANCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECTORDANCE?
- SPECTORDANCE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,330 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 6 organizations giving $162,330 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.
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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing