Maryland · Nonprofit
THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC
THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065,732 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($546,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $446k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $259k
What The Dance Exchange Inc does
Mission
Fueled by generosity and curiosity, we expand who gets to dance, where dance happens, what dance is about, and why dance matters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through oac, dance exchange connects, supports, and grows the national network of socially engaged artists. We host institutes twice annually reaching over 60 artists and 200 audience members.
$45,000 spent$3,395 earned by the program8% of program spendingCommunity and creative hub: providing a creative and community hub in takoma park for over 150 small creative arts businesses who rent studio space to conduct classes and host rehearsals.
$214,911 spent$219,216 earned by the program37% of program spendingCreative tools and practices: sharing art-making techniques and tools with local, national, and international artists and choreographers through weekly classes, public events and interactive experiences. Using practices from the dance exchange toolbox, liz lerman's critical response process and cassie meador's moving field guides, dance exchange engages participants of all ages in discussions about creative research that bridges artists, scientists, community members, historians and teachers.
$111,636 spent$13,279 earned by the program19% of program spendingDancemaking and performance: creation of new work through public dance performances, residency programs, workshops, and institutes offered and presented at various sites locally and around the world. Themes of performances and intergenerational community-based projects include relationship to environment, creative aging, and issues of social justice, inviting multiple voices to connect and create around a shared history, place or passion.
$200,000 spent$22,172 earned by the program35% of program spendingOther
$3,841 spent$13,856 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $575,388.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $621k (−41%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Deborah Riley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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) — 51% 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 51% 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.
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.
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
51% 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 $519k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $546k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- National Endowment for the Arts$140k
- Department of Agriculture$5k
- 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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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 $1,065,732 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($546,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% 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 $1,065,732 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 MONTGOMER 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.
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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 14 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