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THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY

THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being THE CHOATE FOUNDATION (FKA CHOATE BRIDGES FOUNDATION) ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$204k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$2.2M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What The Argentine Tango Society does

Program

  1. Tango music festival - promotion of argentinian tango dance and fundraising for promotion and expanding access to argentinian tango in the u.s.

    $105,896 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($394k) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 126 ($1.3M) Expenses 99 ($389k) Net assets 150 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 36 ($390k) Expenses 92 ($364k) Net assets 134 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 22 ($232k) Expenses 54 ($213k) Net assets 135 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 15 ($157k) Expenses 52 ($204k) Net assets 133 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 8 ($86k) Expenses 73 ($286k) Net assets 122 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 16 ($177k) Expenses 85 ($334k) Net assets 114 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 19 ($204k) Expenses 53 ($208k) Net assets 114 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (19)Expenses (53)Net assets (114)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.0M to $2.6M (−14%).

$2.8M
$3.0M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed34444445
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·0000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $12k.

From the IRS filings of THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY’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

THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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

THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 2 states in all.

VT
GA

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

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’21
Vermont out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY

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05Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY: 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 THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY?
THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being THE CHOATE FOUNDATION (FKA CHOATE BRIDGES FOUNDATION) ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500 in grants to THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY?
THE CHOATE FOUNDATION (FKA CHOATE BRIDGES FOUNDATION) is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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