Florida · Nonprofit
THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC
THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $800,772 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($282,789). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $756k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $801k
- Net assets
- $142k
What The Sarasota Cuban Ballet School Inc does
Mission
The mission of the sarasota cuban ballet is to celebrate and sustain the cultural legacy of the cuban ballet tradition, sharing its uniqueness through performance, education, and community outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The sarasota cuban ballet studio company that strives to develop strong and confident dancers, giving them the opportunity to expand their artistic development and performance experience. The studio company provides an important bridge from student training to a professional dance career and as a professional dance company, it is the next level up in pre-professional training. [the gulfcoast studio company was renamed the sarasota cuban ballet studio company in oct 2025]
A full array of dance classes including creative movement for very young children, ballet for children ages six and above, and a pre-professional program, preparing for our most skilled students for a career in ballet.
$465,078 spent$363,958 earned by the program95% of program spendingA summer intensive program that brings together young people from all over the world who have the talent and drive to become professional dancers.
$26,965 spent$86,024 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $492,043.
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 2022 to 2023, from $336k to $1.3M (+296%).
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 4% · 2018 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 32% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL 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. 3 of the last 8 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
Michael Shelton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $118k → $114k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL 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 SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 62% · 2019 79% · 2020 69% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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
63% of THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL 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 SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC?
- THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $800,772 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($282,789). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $800,772 in grants to THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $282,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 16 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