Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
TANGO MERCURIO INC
TANGO MERCURIO INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,570 to it, the largest being LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($10,570). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Tango Mercurio Inc does
Mission
Arts education in argentine tango
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Dance program - provided over 2,000 contact hours of immersive arts experience. In 2025 tango mercurio delivered an extensive program of more than 200 hours of dance instruction spanning individual classes series workshops and weekend intensive boot camp sessions in various dc wards. Highlights from our 2025 programming include: celebrating hispanic month in fall 2025 with free open-to-all introduction classes at la cosecha union market and expanding the live music program with 5 professional tango musicians performing at our bi-weekly tango social events.
$55,840 spent62% of program spendingOutreach activities to promote engagement with the broader community including populations who would otherwise not be exposed to the dance and culture of argentine tango. Noteworthy events include: premiering in the dc area adatped tango classes for people with parkinson disease and other movement disorders; offering free classes at the university of maryland campus in spring 2025; offering a free introductory class and demo at two non-profit dance studios in northeast dc the dance place nad joy of motion and inviting their teachers to one of our bootcamp weekend to train them to be tango teachers in their community; and hosting a free movie screening on the african roots of tango during black history month 2025.
$24,952 spent27% of program spendingFinancial sustainabilty: in 2025 tango mercurio maintained its commitment to operating debt-free through an expansion of its funding opportunities fundraising campaigns towards indivdual donors for its live music program and adapted tango program geared towards people with parkindon disease and other movement disorders. Noteworthy were general operating support grants awarded by the dc community on the arts and humanities in october 2024 and october 2025 as well as grants from the mihir desai foundation to support fundraising activities and match our live music program fundraising initiative. As a result tango mercurio remained debt-free and substantially increased its financial reserves in 2025.
$10,000 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,792.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $33k to $84k (+158%).
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.
63% of TANGO MERCURIO INC’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ramu Pyreddy
Executive director
Board chair
Jonathan Fernandes
Chair and director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TANGO MERCURIO 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.
Where its funders are
100% of TANGO MERCURIO INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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
TANGO MERCURIO INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
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In Washington, D.C.
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TANGO MERCURIO INC?
- TANGO MERCURIO INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,570 to it, the largest being LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($10,570). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TANGO MERCURIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,570 in grants to TANGO MERCURIO INC.
- Who is the largest funder of TANGO MERCURIO INC?
- LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TANGO MERCURIO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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