Mississippi · Nonprofit
USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION
USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION (Mississippi) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,733 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($179,692). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $989k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $463k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What USA International Ballet Competition does
Mission
The mission of the USA International Ballet Competition is to provide an opportunity for dancers to test themselves against recognized international standards of dance excellence; to provide an opportunity for dancers to showcase their technical skill and artistic talent
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The usa ibc is a two week "olympic style" competition where tommorrow's ballet stars vie for gold, silver and bronze medals, cash awards, scholarships and jobs. The competition is a stepping stone to a dancer's career. During 2024 (year ending 9/30/25), the ibc is promoting itself and recruiting competitors, jurors, dance school students, and faculty in preparation for the 2027 competition
$467,540 spent95% of program spendingCitydance is an after school dance program sponsored by the USA International Ballet Competition. Citydance provides free ballet classes for children 7 years old to 12 years old that are also enrolled in the jackson public school system. Participants are selected through an audition process held each september. Each year citydance adds another class of beginners to the program as skill levels build.
$19,660 spent4% of program spendingFriends of the usa ibc is an active membership group within the international ballet association. As volunteers, friends support the usa ibcs everyday needs and special projects. They plan fundraising and friends membership events, serve on competition work committees, assist with the public school citydance program (helping with auditions, dance wear purchases and recitals) and are local and national advocates for the usa ibc. Members (and future members) gather at least twice a year, once at a membership event and once at a fundraising event.
$3,570 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $490,770.
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 2018 to 2019, from $230k to $780k (+239%).
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 18% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 19% · 2021 23% · 2022 11% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Mr Lex Taylor
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $114k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION’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
USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 53% · 2019 86% · 2020 81% · 2021 56% · 2022 39% · 2023 31% — 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
29% of USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
80% of USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION
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 Mississippi
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
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 USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: 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 USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION?
- USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION (Mississippi) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,733 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($179,692). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $462,733 in grants to USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $179,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 13 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