Oklahoma · Nonprofit
TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC
TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,364,020 to it, the largest being RITA L WILLIS FOUNDATION 1300-0002455 ($1,192,950). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc does
Mission
To preserve and create works of ballet and educate through training and outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tulsa ballet produces 8 shows each season including beloved classics, modern masterpieces, and world premiere creations. These performances annually reach more than 40,000 individuals across the region . In addition to serving as an official cultural ambassador for the state with national and international performance tours, tulsa ballet collaborates with and leads the local and global arts industries.
$6,037,090 spent$2,407,755 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe tulsa ballet centers for dance education (tbcde) offer dance training of uncompromising quality. The curriculum emphasizes classical ballet technique based on the russian tradition of training. With two locations in the tulsa metro, tbcde is led by a full time faculty of professional dancers and leaders in the field of ballet pedagogy. The pre-professional division offers classes for students 9 to 18. Additional classes are offered for children 3-5 (creative movement), 6-9 (preparatory ballet), and adults wishing to begin or continue their training.
$1,002,356 spent$969,163 earned by the program14% of program spendingTulsa ballet provides a variety of educational and performance outreach programs for the community. These important programs increase arts access for underfunded schools, clients of social services, and other populations who do not typically have access to arts experiences. Dance for joy offers an in-studio ballet class for children in foster care, adoptive, or guardianship families, and intro to dance takes dance programs out into local at-risk schools. The hardesty family foundation's children's series brings a children's ballet performance to every 5th grader in tulsa public schools through the kennedy center's national any given child program. Partners in art and hope for the holidays provide free tulsa ballet tickets for mainstage performances to underserved children and families. In total, tulsa ballet's outreach programs serve 10,000 persons each year.
$337,875 spentof which $196,180 as grants$1,233 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: $7,377,321.
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 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $23M (+9%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 18% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Marcello Angelini
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 37 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $945k.
9 of 79 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tulsa Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 65% · 2019 19% · 2020 20% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — 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
58% of TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
86% of TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC's revenue grew 73% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 TULSA BALLET THEATRE 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tulsa Ballet Theatre Trust Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC?
- TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,364,020 to it, the largest being RITA L WILLIS FOUNDATION 1300-0002455 ($1,192,950). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $11,364,020 in grants to TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC?
- RITA L WILLIS FOUNDATION 1300-0002455 is the largest funder on record, with $1,192,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 79 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