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Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc

Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $372,054 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($290,238). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$167k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$372k
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
6/7 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2022 Revenue 102 ($157k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets 27 ($8k)2023 Revenue 74 ($114k) Expenses 79 ($122k) Net assets 2 ($578)2024 Revenue 109 ($167k) Expenses 103 ($159k) Net assets 31 ($9k)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (103)Net assets (31)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$117
21
$3k
22
$7k
23
$9k
24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $182k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)78% 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 Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc.

78%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 83% · 2020 53% · 2021 96% · 2022 67% · 2023 91%diversifying over time.

“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

78% of Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc'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 $81k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Connecticut funders.

CT
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.

State$33k
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Top programs
  • State Aid Grants$26k
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$7k

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 Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc

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 Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

92%

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 Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc: 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 Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc?
Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $372,054 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($290,238). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $372,054 in grants to Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc?
HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $290,238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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