Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE
ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE (Missouri) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,138 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($138,712). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $677k
- Net assets
- $324k
What St Louis Dance Theatre does
Mission
St. Louis dance theatre's mission is to invigorate life through dance. We achieve this mission through the presentation of high quality main stage productions, educational programs, and our senior embrace outreach program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Productions and collaborations: st. Louis dance theatre self-produces three full concert runs per year, presenting new choreographic works to diverse audiences across the st. Louis metropolitan area. Collaborative projects include partnerships and productions with neighboring arts organiza838688tions of varying disciplines, such as visual art, theatre, dance, and cinematography
$838,376 spent$237,929 earned by the program77% of program spendingEducational programs: st. Louis dance theatre provides the following educational programs each fiscal year for respective audiences: 1 a dance career residency program for teenagers as a specialized seven-week experience that culminates in a debut performance at the company's main stage production occurring both in the fall and spring, 2 a trainee program for post-college age dancers that bridges the gap between dance education and a professional career, 3 ongoing technique classes for all ages in ballet, contemporary, and jazz dance, and 4 a summer intensive program.
$199,876 spent$162,496 earned by the program18% of program spendingSenior embrace: st. Louis dance theatre performs genre-specific repertoire at approximately thirty retirement home locations in and around the st. Louis metropolitan area. The organization also has a hands-on movement workshop that is targeted at seniors with alzheimer's disease to strengthen the mind-body connection and improve the seniors' quality of life and relationships with their caregivers.
$45,262 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,083,514.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $443k to $895k (+102%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $43k → $77k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 funders by total. 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
ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 41% · 2019 67% · 2020 47% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 49% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE'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 $334k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $343k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is 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.
Against its field
ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
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 ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE: 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 ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE?
- ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE (Missouri) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,138 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($138,712). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $677,138 in grants to ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE?
- REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $138,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 26 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