California · Nonprofit
TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER
TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,251 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($325,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $614k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $832k
- Net assets
- $267k
What Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center does
Mission
Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center (TWDCC) facilitates a working home for professional world & contemporary dance artists, while providing dance education that is committed to access, equity and excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
TWDCC provides a dance and cultural center with programs falling under three categories: youth dance training program, the Diaspora Performance Project, and serving as a community cultural center.Through each of these programs we provide a working home for professional world and contemporary dance artists and affordable and equitable dance education and cultural space for Santa Cruz County Residents.Our Youth Program offers exceptional dance training to over 200 local youths aged 3-18, including weekly dance classes during the school year, four week-long summer Camps, and multiple weeks of summer Intensives highlighting Modern and Contemporary dance as well as dance film-making.TWDCC also has six youth pre-professional performing dance companies that are built on the foundation of training, leadership and discipline. The TWDCC youth program provides a dance and cultural center that has become a second home to many of our students. We currently offer full andpartial need-based scholarships to about 20% of our youth students, including scholarships to every child who lives at the Tannery Arts Center where we are located. This year we provided 41 dance scholarships to under served…
$390,202 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $390,202.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $241k to $327k (+36%).
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 2% · 2021 28% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $72k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER’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
TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 59% · 2019 59% · 2020 41% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 84% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
71% of TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER'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 $238k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $594k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER: 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 TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER?
- TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,251 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($325,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $832,251 in grants to TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing