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YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA

YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,421 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($111,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$898k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$152k
Net assets
$465k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Ylc Ballet Westside Ballet of Santa Monica does

Mission

YLC Ballet dba Westside Ballet of Santa Monica is a pre-professional ballet company which provides young dancers the performance opportunities that are vital to their artistic growth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Westside Ballet of Santa Monica is proud of its annual traditional production of The Nutcracker, and an acclaimed Spring Showcase that includes a variety of classical, neoclassical and original works.

    $682,879 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $682,879.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($361k) Expenses 100 ($349k) Net assets 100 ($206k)2023 Revenue 179 ($646k) Expenses 148 ($516k) Net assets 166 ($341k)2024 Revenue 221 ($797k) Expenses 221 ($772k) Net assets 176 ($363k)2025 Revenue 248 ($898k) Expenses 228 ($795k) Net assets 226 ($465k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (248)Expenses (228)Net assets (226)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $215k to $347k (+61%).

$215k
$347k
$362k
$469k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

49% of YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’22
$130k
’23
$25k
’24
$103k
’25
5.5
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed15151216
Joined·+0+1+5
No longer listed·041
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA’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

YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77% 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 YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA.

73%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

77% of YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA'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 $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve5.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA?
YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,421 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($111,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $152,421 in grants to YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $111,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YLC BALLET WESTSIDE BALLET OF SANTA MONICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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