California · Nonprofit
transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project
transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,647,786 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($620,770). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $814k
What transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project does
Mission
We provide access to dance & performance, & holistic wraparound services, for young people from marginalized communities. We support youth as they transcend barriers, recognize their own potential & power, and create positive change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through the CREATE Performance Group, youth ages 9-18 years engage in rigorous dance training, are immersed in a social change and social emotional learning curriculum, and have access to holistic wraparound services.
$656,291 spent$131,838 earned by the program64% of program spendingtranscenDANCECONNECTSto youth and communities through in-school and out-of-school time dance classes, artist-in-residency programs, community arts work in public spaces, and outreach performances.
$289,422 spent$57,974 earned by the program28% of program spendingtranscenDANCE alumniCONTRIBUTEthrough performances, teaching and choreography assistantships and paid roles, and mentoring of incoming students, and are eligible for college scholarships.
$83,069 spentof which $27,006 as grants$11,915 earned by the program8% of program spending2025 CONNECT programs: -Held on-site dance & visual art classes weekly throughout the school year for 36 students, ages 4-8 years. -Partnered with 15 school residency sites in Lemon Grove and San Diego, serving 1,179 students across school-year residency programming. -Offered summer residency programming for 125 students in partnership with the Lemon Grove School District, and an additional 34 students through summer residency work in partnership with Kupanda Kids (refugee serving organization). -Reached 3,360 audience members through outreach performances held at community partner sites, festivals, events, and conferences. CREATE HIGHLIGHTS -CREATE Performance Groups of 65 students total, in 3 age-based cohorts, held 2 performances of Rooted and Dreaming at the Hoover High School Performing Arts Center for 920 total audience members. -350+ program hours of dance, poetry, visual arts, and performing arts activities that also included a social emotional learning curriculum. -Holistic wraparound support including meal service, mental health and wellness services, leadership development opportunities, and college readiness support for high school seniors. -29 students attended a…
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,028,782.
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 2019 to 2020, from $110k to $487k (+344%).
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 11% · 2018 16% · 2019 31% · 2020 21% · 2021 25% · 2022 36% · 2023 26% · 2024 33% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $42k → $460k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 49% · 2019 83% · 2020 18% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
71% of transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $857k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $170k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$170k
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 transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project: 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 transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project?
- transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,647,786 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($620,770). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,647,786 in grants to transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $620,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 39 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