New York · Nonprofit
The Universal Ballet Foundation
The Universal Ballet Foundation (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,027 to it, the largest being Universal Peace Federation ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Universal Ballet Foundation does
Mission
To find, train, and educate students who show excellence in their artistic potential for ballet.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Final School YearDue to financial challenges, the Kirov Academy concluded its final school year in May of 2022. The care of our students was our highest priority during 2022. In spite of the challenges facing the Kirov Academy, the 2021-2022 academic year was one of our most successful and memorable.Student TransferGiven the UBF Board's decision to implement an orderly wind-down of the Academy, the school year's top priority was guiding students to find their next college, another school, or a professional career. To support this goal, the Universal Ballet Foundation Board allowed scholarships for ballet students to participate in various auditions and competitions. All ballet and Academic Only ("AO") students regularly communicated with their assigned staff or faculty members throughout the school year. Except for 2 students who decided to go back to their home countries, we successfuly transferred all ballet students to new schools or ballet companies including The Washington Ballet. We also placed over 70% of "academic only" students to their next schools before the end of school year; which is relatively an early placement for academic schools since the usual transferring…
$21,948,322 spentof which $19,886,959 as grants$1,969,136 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,948,322.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Pamela Gonzales de Cordova
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Thomas Walsh
Director,Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Universal Ballet Foundation’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 Universal Ballet Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Universal Ballet Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 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
100% of The Universal Ballet Foundation's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like The Universal Ballet Foundation
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Universal Ballet Foundation: 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 Universal Ballet Foundation?
- The Universal Ballet Foundation (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,027 to it, the largest being Universal Peace Federation ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Universal Ballet Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,027 in grants to The Universal Ballet Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Universal Ballet Foundation?
- Universal Peace Federation is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Universal Ballet Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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