Michigan · Nonprofit
Traverse City Dance Project
Traverse City Dance Project (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,326 to it, the largest being KETTERING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $229k
- Net assets
- $-12420
What Traverse City Dance Project does
Mission
The Corporation shall have the purpose of supporting the creation and promotion of the arts, including visual and performance art, and providing education regarding the arts. The purposes include: to build and stage a bold mixture of new and existing dance works to inspire and educate audiences to collaborate within the community where performances are located to provide a creative laboratory for dancers and choreographers and to commission music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, continued its community tour to four Northern Michigan communitiesKalkaska, Charlevoix, Frankfort, and Traverse City, as well as a pop-up showing at Little Fleet for community members, all showings free of charge. For many, this was their first exposure to live dance, and you made it possible to reach them. During the tour, we included two free pre-performance classes for kids in Kalkaska and Charlevoix, and collaborated with Fitchs School of Dance in Kalkaska, to provide an opportunity for local students to perform right alongside TCDPs professionals. The summer tour brought together six professional dancers, a cellist, a DJ artist, and a passionate technical team. Through partnerships with the Garden Theater, the Kalkaska Downtown Development Authority, Charlevoix Parks and Recreation, and the Northern Michigan Disability Network, the organization deepened community connections while creating new opportunities for artistic collaboration. This season also featured the commissioning of original works by three choreographers, enriching the dialogue between artists and audiences throughout Northern Michigan. TCDP successfully maintained their intern program, now in its…
$213,889 spent$15,874 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $213,889.
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.
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 $61k to $34k (−44%).
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.
92% of Traverse City Dance Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $23k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Traverse City Dance Project’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
Traverse City Dance Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
42% 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 Traverse City Dance Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 45% · 2022 44% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of Traverse City Dance Project's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
50% of Traverse City Dance Project's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
Traverse City Dance Project has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Traverse City Dance 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Traverse City Dance 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 Traverse City Dance Project?
- Traverse City Dance Project (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,326 to it, the largest being KETTERING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Traverse City Dance Project have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $229,326 in grants to Traverse City Dance Project, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Traverse City Dance Project?
- KETTERING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Traverse City Dance Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 10 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