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Danceusa
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1253457. Reported 39 grants totalling $395,936 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Danceusa, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A036) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $7,500. Half of what it reported fell between $2,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $24,133. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tau Dance Theater | Honolulu, HI | $34,967 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dance Iquail Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $33,467 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Eyakkam Dance Company | Louisville, KY | $33,467 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kinding Sindaw Heritage Foundation Inc | Jackson Hts, NY | $32,767 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Yellow Peril LLC - Ach | Brooklyn | $31,367 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dancing Grounds | New Orleans, LA | $24,133 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nevada Ballet Theatre | Las Vegas, NV | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Orlando Ballet Inc | Orlando, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sacramento Ballet Association | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ballet Oklahoma Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Julie Beth Johnson | $9,334 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| One East Palo Alto | E Palo Alto, CA | $9,334 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Professional Flair Inc | Cleveland, OH | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ballethnic Dance Company Inc | East Point, GA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cashion Cultural Legacy | San Jose, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cave Organization Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | Dayton, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center | San Antonio, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jazzantiqua Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center Inc | Jersey City, NJ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temate Institute for Black Dance and Culture LLC | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The International Association of Blacks in Dance Inc | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $2,600 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Axis Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Several Dancers Core Inc | Decatur, GA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alternate Roots Inc | Atlanta, GA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dance Works Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Joyce Theater Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | Columbia, SC | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
5 of 33 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Yellow Peril LLC - Ach
DANCE/USA FELLOWSHIPS TO ARTISTS - Sacramento Ballet - Ach
FEMALE CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVE - Tau Dance Theater
DANCE/USA FELLOWSHIPS TO ARTISTS GRANT, UNRESTRICTED SUPPORT IN RECOGNITION OF ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL PRACTICE, FOR PETER ROCKFORD UTUTAU - Dance Iquail
DANCE/USA FELLOWSHIPS TO ARTISTS GRANT, UNRESTRICTED SUPPORT IN RECOGNITION OF ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL PRACTICE, FOR IQUAIL SHAHEED JOHNSON - Eyakkam Dance Company
DANCE/USA FELLOWSHIPS TO ARTISTS GRANT, UNRESTRICTED SUPPORT IN RECOGNITION OF ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL PRACTICE, FOR PRATHIBA NATESAN BATLEY - Julie Beth Johnson
DANCE/USA FELLOWSHIPS TO ARTISTS GRANT, UNRESTRICTED SUPPORT IN RECOGNITION OF ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL PRACTICE, FOR JULIE JOHNSON
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 33 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $10,600 | $100 |
| 2022 | 16 | $277,798 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 11 | $92,538 | $8,634 |
| 2024 | 2 | $15,000 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Danceusa's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 420027, Washington, DC, 20042.
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