Massachusetts · Nonprofit
URBANITY DANCE INC
URBANITY DANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,138,251 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($633,556). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $351k
What Urbanity Dance Inc does
Mission
Urbanity dance exists to engage, inspire, and empower individuals and communities through the art of dance and movement. Through its three south end studios and work in the community, urbanity is proud to provide high quality dance experiences to over 10,000 dance-lovers of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities every year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school at urbanity dance offers quality dance training for students of all ages. Faculty, all from diverse cultural and dance backgrounds, strive to support each student in their dance experience. Urbanity's nurturing classroom environment is designed to encourage a generation of lifelong movers and dance enthusiasts. Urbanity dance's professional company aspires to push the limits of dance technique, inspiring audiences with its cutting edge artistry and startling unpredictability. The company is dedicated to providing provocative, visually arresting and musically stimulating performances for diverse audiences of all ages. Company dancers are lifelong learners chosen for their sharp adaptability, dancing prowess, and creative vision.urbanity's commitment to its community spans a range of partnerships with community collaborators through its three flagship programs: urbanity in the community, dance with parkinson's, and movement mends. These programs use dance and movement to foster bodily autonomy and encourage creative expression in its particpants.
$574,630 spent$593,050 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $574,630.
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 2017 to 2018, from $209k to $1.3M (+545%).
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 10% · 2021 40% · 2022 12% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of URBANITY DANCE 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. 4 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 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $51k → $156k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 URBANITY DANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
URBANITY DANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 URBANITY DANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 60% · 2019 73% · 2020 68% · 2021 43% · 2022 43% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of URBANITY DANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
73% of URBANITY DANCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $303k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $835k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
URBANITY DANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding URBANITY DANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record — $20k federal, $145k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$145k
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 URBANITY DANCE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBANITY DANCE INC: 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 URBANITY DANCE INC?
- URBANITY DANCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,138,251 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($633,556). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does URBANITY DANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,138,251 in grants to URBANITY DANCE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBANITY DANCE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $633,556 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBANITY DANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 31 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