California · Nonprofit
SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING
SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,921 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($68,057). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $383k
What Sundance Association for Country Western Dancing does
Mission
The Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing provides education in and programs for country-western dancing as a distinctly American art form for the LGBTQ+ community. As an all-volunteer and community-supported nonprofit organization, the Sundance Association fosters individual growth and passion, encourages volunteerism and philanthropic giving, and strives to create an inclusive and welcoming community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Sundance Round-Up. The Sundance Association produced a four-day country-western dance weekend conference for the LGBTQ community and its friends and allies.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Sundance Saloon. Twice-weekly dance lessons and open country-western dancing featuring a variety of dance forms including two-step, waltz, east coast swing, west coast swing, line dancing, and more. These events take place in a club setting and are open to the general public, with typically 80 attendees on a Thursday, and 160 on a Sunday. Dance lessons typically take place in multiple rooms, allowing for beginning and advanced level lessons simultaneously. Sundance Saloon caters to the LGBTQ+ community and its friends. Attendees are incredibly diverse, with ages ranging from 20s to 80s, men and women and nonbinary, cis and trans, gay and straight, all races and ethnicities, and all socioeconomic levels, mixing together easily and freely. Sundance Saloon offers a safe haven for older attendees (as well as younger attendees), folks in recovery, financially-challenged individuals, those struggling with isolation, and those needing a place for solace and renewal to help cope with life's challenges.
$162,995 spent$66,979 earned by the program85% of program spendingSpecial Events. The Sundance Association presents numerous additional special events in San Francisco, expanding its reach to the greater LGBTQ+ community and its friends. In 2025 we held large country-western dances with lessons at large outdoor festivals including San Francisco Pride and the Castro Street Fair, free to the public. Our additional exposure to the general public from these events numbered in the thousands. In addition, we produced an additional indoor event during the San Francisco Pride weekend, with 150 in attendance, and eight outdoor dances in Union Square and on Noe Street, with 60 in attendance.
$19,275 spent$11,741 earned by the program10% of program spendingSundance Round-Up. The Sundance Association produced a four-day country-western dance weekend for the LGBTQ community and its friends and allies, in conjunction with another 501c3 nonprofit organization, the International Gay Rodeo Association. The Sundance Round-Up featured four nights of large-scale dances and three days of educational dance workshops. Dance lessons took place in up to five rooms simultaneously, offering an incomparable depth and breadth of dance styles, including two-step, waltz, east coast swing, west coast swing, line dancing, and more, for all levels, beginning to advanced. There were over 800 participants, one-third from the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and two-thirds from all over the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The Sundance Round-Up became the largest event of its kind in the world, bringing a global community together, and greatly furthered our mission of spreading our culture of inclusiveness and welcoming around the world.
$8,159 spent$6,336 earned by the program4% of program spendingCommunity Support. We offer small grants to like-minded 501c3 nonprofit organizations that produce country-western dance opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community. In 2025 we allocated three $250 grants to: Wranglers Los Angeles Dance Association, 1234 Havenhurst Drive Suite 11, West Hollywood, CA, 90046. EIN 82-1908766; Rain Country Dance Association, 1122 E Pike St PMB 1155, Seattle, WA 98122. EIN 26-1359919; and Hoedown In The Dunes, 1629 W Sherwin Ave Apt G2, Chicago IL 60626-1934. EIN 81-3691121.
$750 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $191,179.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $288k to $340k (+18%).
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.
55% of SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $22k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING’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
SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 36% · 2022 32% · 2023 50% — 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
59% of SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING'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 $76k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING?
- SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,921 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($68,057). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $182,921 in grants to SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $68,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUNDANCE ASSOCIATION FOR COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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