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THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC

THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,619 to it, the largest being EILEEN FISHER FOUNDATION ($110,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$104k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$242k
Net assets
$62k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What The Storydancer Project Inc does

Mission

Self-Care & Palliative Care programs & wellness trainings

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. RAINBOW BRIDGE: TSP'S What's in a Story Program in New Mexico Navajo Nation schools...Literacy, historic identity and wellness program for the elementary school classrooms. (830 served.)

    $22,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    28% of program spending
  2. HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PRACTICES: TSP in partnership with Hope Project India. Live Self-Care Resiliency programs for girls, school children, women families, women's health clinic, self-help groups, vocational training and mobile health unit outreach to outlying populations. (3260+ served)

    $24,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    31% of program spending
  3. SELF-CARE FOR FRONT-LINE NURSES & HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS: TSP in partnership with MEPRA for live Self-Care Resiliency sessions addressing the difficulties of burnout for U.S. front-line nurses and healthcare professionals. (310 served.)

    $3,600 spentof which $1,200 as grants
    5% of program spending
  4. INNOVATIONS IN PALLIATIVE CARE: TSP in partnership with CanSupport India. Live and online palliative care sessions for Home Care Team cancer patients and families, trainings for Home Care Team members; and trainings for Home Care Team members, general staff and nurses in training, rejuvenation of body mind and spirit. (3,400 served.)

    $28,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants
    36% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,600.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2022 Revenue 94 ($142k) Expenses 116 ($106k) Net assets 136 ($134k)2023 Revenue 71 ($107k) Expenses 179 ($164k) Net assets 78 ($77k)2024 Revenue 88 ($133k) Expenses 145 ($133k) Net assets 79 ($77k)2025 Revenue 69 ($104k) Expenses 129 ($118k) Net assets 63 ($62k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (69)Expenses (129)Net assets (63)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 2022 to 2023, from $134k to $77k (−43%).

$98k
$134k
$77k
$77k
$62k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’21
$35k
’22
−$57k
’23
$398
’24
−$13k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Zuleikha Bethami

Founder-Executive Director

Board chair

Cynda Rushton

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $35k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 STORYDANCER PROJECT 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 STORYDANCER PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 48% · 2019 43% · 2020 93% · 2021 88% · 2022 45% · 2023 71% — 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

25% of THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 3 states in all.

NY
VA
NM

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In New Mexico

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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

NM

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC?
THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,619 to it, the largest being EILEEN FISHER FOUNDATION ($110,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $241,619 in grants to THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC?
EILEEN FISHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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