Minnesota · Nonprofit
YOUNG DANCE INC
YOUNG DANCE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,211 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($80,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $674k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $552k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Young Dance Inc does
Mission
Transforming Lives Through Movement. Young Dance encourages youth in our community to build body and spirit through the creative art of dance. The dance school and company collaborate with professional artists forge meaningful community partnerships and push the boundaries of the art and practice of dance. Young Dance is an inclusive artistic community where creativity flourishes and all are encouraged to aspire to artistic professionalism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Young Dance Classes - Young Dance offered approximately 30 weekly classes September-May at our studios including Dance Together Dancing with Baby Creative Movement Levels 1-3 Modern Levels 1-4 Adult Modern Ballet Levels 1-3,Hip Hop Levels 1-3 Breaking Levels 1-3 Musical Theater and All Abilities Dancing Levels 1-2. We also offered 1 All Abilities Dancing Online class. Our season culminated with a performance of each class in May. Summer session includes 5 weeks of camps for Creative Movement Variety Dance and specialty focused camps which dive deeply into one area of dance. Summer also includes weekly classes in Creative Movement Family Dance and All Abilities Dancing. Individuals with disabilities are welcome into any of our classes. In 2024-25 our classes served students from infancy through adulthood reaching a total of 462 participants.
$207,702 spent$150,893 earned by the program46% of program spendingYoung Dance Company - 20 dancers participated in the Young Dance Company under the direction of Anat Shinar Judy Shui Xian ,and Margaret Ogas in the 2024-25 season. They worked with 3 additional guest artists. They presented work at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis Institute of Arts Modern Dance Project Franconia Sculpture Park and a season culminating concert at the Luminary Arts Center.
$77,146 spent$40,195 earned by the program17% of program spendingCommunity Partnerships - A vital part of our programming are community partnerships that happen with schools and community organizations bringing dance to people who otherwise cannot access our programming. We offered extended programs lasting multiple weeks with Ramsey County Juvenile Corrections Minneapolis and St. Paul schools Interact Center for the Arts and Midwest Special Services. We offered 1 time programs at the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Public Libraries. Our Community Partnerships served 4888 participants.
$114,655 spent$115,393 earned by the program26% of program spendingAll Abilities Dancing - All Abilities Dancing is an initiative to integrate individuals with and without disabilities across our programs as equal participants in the exploration creation and performance of dance. Individuals with disabilities participate in our classes performing company and community partnerships. We also offer teacher training. In FY25 we trained 35 teaching artists in our All Abilities Dancing curriculum. We also presented a performance in March 2025 at Park Square Theatees Andy Boss stage featuring a cast of 17 performers with and without disabilities.
$49,173 spent$35,848 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $448,676.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $101k to $225k (+122%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 19% · 2024 24% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of YOUNG DANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Gretchen Pick
Executive Director
Board chair
Emilio Alvarez Harris
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $28k → $81k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 YOUNG DANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
YOUNG DANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 YOUNG DANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 44% · 2019 32% · 2020 41% · 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 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
38% of YOUNG DANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
YOUNG DANCE INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k 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.
Against its field
YOUNG DANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUNG 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 Minnesota
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
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUNG 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 YOUNG DANCE INC?
- YOUNG DANCE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,211 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($80,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG DANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $552,211 in grants to YOUNG DANCE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG DANCE INC?
- FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG DANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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