Washington · Nonprofit
Velocity Dance Center
Velocity Dance Center (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,125 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($367,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $928k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $441k
What Velocity Dance Center does
Mission
Velocity advances contemporary dance and movement-based art by fostering the creative explorations of artists and audiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Residency Programs: Velocity's Residency programs supported over 240 artists through a series of five graduating platforms that provide funding, space, mentorship, administrative and production support to artists at different stages in their careers. These programs continue to grow in response to a 2021 survey and focus group where artists asked us to provide more support during the critical and often under-resourced time of process and development. 2024 Projects incubated through these programs include Lavinia Vagos FKK, The Seattle Projects Here. Because, and Mouthwater Disabled Arts Festival.
$498,359 spent$31,350 earned by the program57% of program spendingOther Program Services: Fiscal Sponsorship
$168,612 spent$29,146 earned by the program19% of program spendingEducation: Velocity's Education Programs include workshops, classes and the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. These programs serve adult and youth participants, with dance and choreography training for beginning through professional level dancers. In 2024, Velocity employed a total of 67 teaching artists and offered education programs to over 844 participants. Our summer program, Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation, represented the majority of these classes, with 67 classes and intensive offerings; however, we also offer the Young Choreographers Club, which is a free program in the spring for artists ages 12-18. Velocity also provided over $15,000 in partial and full tuition scholarships for the summer festival.
$145,367 spent$70,010 earned by the program17% of program spendingPerformance: In 2024, Velocity Presented 165 artists and hosted 32 performances and events. Velocity's performances include the culmination of our residency programs as well as the presentation of new and existing work from across the country through our Guest Artist Series at the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. We often present this program in partnership, and in 2024 we worked with both the Freeway Park Association and Northwest Film Forum to provide venues for socially conscious works, like SUPERCELL: water womb, and the film screening of RE-COLLECT, exploring themes of climate change and the evolution of the 60s style contact improvisation as a tool for social justice. Performance programs provide a vital platform for artists to share their work, while also providing valuable cultural experiences for over 3,455 people, with about 20% attending for free through free events and our tiered ticketing initiative.
$61,060 spent$13,541 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $873,398.
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 2020 to 2021, from $31k to $264k (+765%).
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: 2019 8% · 2020 34% · 2021 68% · 2022 34% · 2023 31% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Velocity Dance Center’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. 5 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $18k → $197k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Velocity Dance Center’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
Velocity Dance Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
46% 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 Velocity Dance Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 43% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 58% · 2022 77% · 2023 76% — broadly stable.
“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
42% of Velocity Dance Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
Velocity Dance Center draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Velocity Dance Center is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Velocity Dance Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $315k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$315k
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 Velocity Dance Center
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 Washington
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
81%
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 Velocity Dance Center: 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 Velocity Dance Center?
- Velocity Dance Center (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,125 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($367,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Velocity Dance Center have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,230,125 in grants to Velocity Dance Center, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Velocity Dance Center?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $367,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Velocity Dance Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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