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THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC

THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,732 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ($546,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$446k
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$259k
Net assets
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%

Against its field

THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−70% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($374k) Expenses 100 ($447k) Net assets 100 ($538k)2018 Revenue 139 ($520k) Expenses 120 ($536k) Net assets 97 ($522k)2019 Revenue 133 ($496k) Expenses 113 ($505k) Net assets 99 ($535k)2020 Revenue 133 ($496k) Expenses 123 ($551k) Net assets 89 ($479k)2021 Revenue 132 ($492k) Expenses 115 ($514k) Net assets 85 ($457k)2022 Revenue 132 ($494k) Expenses 117 ($522k) Net assets 97 ($521k)2023 Revenue 198 ($742k) Expenses 148 ($662k) Net assets 112 ($601k)2024 Revenue 198 ($741k) Expenses 146 ($654k) Net assets 128 ($688k)2025 Revenue 119 ($446k) Expenses 170 ($758k) Net assets 48 ($259k)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (170)Net assets (48)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 18% · 2019 12% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 30% · 2024 26% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

39% of THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$73k
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$15k
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$9k
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$56k
20
$22k
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$28k
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$80k
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$87k
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$312k
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0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $37k → $169k.

2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% 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 THE DANCE EXCHANGE 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.

How concentrated its funding is

THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

56% 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 THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC.

52%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 56% · 2019 76% · 2020 77% · 2021 51% · 2022 53% · 2023 69%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.

How long its funders stay

57% of THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

52% of THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC'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 $513k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states.

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MA
MD
DE
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TX

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $546k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $368k on record — $145k federal, $224k state.

Federal$145k
grants $145kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$140k
  • Department of Agriculture$5k
State$224k
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Top programs
  • Grant$224k

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 THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 16%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC: 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 DANCE EXCHANGE INC?
THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,732 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ($546,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,059,732 in grants to THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC?
ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $546,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing