$3.8M
latest revenue
$18.1M
total assets
1976
exempt since
33
NEA dance grants
- EIN
- 06-0932294
- Location
- Durham, NC 27705
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3) · donations deductible
- Classification
- School
- Latest tax period
- 2025-09
- Income
- $3,948,307
Financial history (Form 990)
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Contributions | Assets | 990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $4,390,839 | $3,570,609 | $1,582,387 | $14,245,118 | |
| 2022 | $3,895,844 | $3,286,036 | $3,084,774 | $13,153,237 | |
| 2021 | $2,712,778 | $1,799,625 | $1,896,728 | $15,847,262 | |
| 2020 | $2,464,066 | $1,691,358 | $1,130,177 | $13,092,436 | |
| 2019 | $4,548,748 | $3,407,150 | $1,738,822 | $12,549,293 | |
| 2018 | $3,481,426 | $3,322,422 | $1,671,969 | $12,505,094 | |
| 2017 | $3,531,400 | $3,568,666 | $1,740,826 | $11,550,149 | |
| 2016 | $3,409,522 | $3,648,595 | $1,813,490 | $10,824,376 |
National Endowment for the Arts grants
| Year | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $50,000 | Purpose: To support presentations at the American Dance Festival, including newly commissioned work. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature performances by Mark Morris Dance Group, Pilobolus, Camille A |
| 2025 | $65,500 | Purpose: To support presentations at the American Dance Festival, including newly commissioned work. Additional Project Description: Festival performances will include works by artists and companies such as Bulareyaung D |
| 2024 | $60,000 | Purpose: To support commissioned new works and presentations at the American Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present works by artists and companies such as Les Ballet Afrik, Netta Yerush |
| 2023 | $60,000 | Purpose: To support presentations at the American Dance Festival, including newly-commissioned work. Additional Project Description: Festival performances will include works by artists and companies such as Ballet Hispan |
| 2022 | $60,000 | Purpose: To support presentations at the American Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Festival performances will include artists and companies such as Abby Z and the New Utility, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Janis |
| 2021 | $60,000 | To support virtual and in-person presentations at the American Dance Festival. Festival performances will include a historical reconstruction from Pilobolus and virtual presentations by artists from Taiwan. ADF will also |
| 2020 | $65,000 | To support planning costs and commissions fees for the American Dance Festival. |
| 2019 | $60,000 | To support debuts at the American Dance Festival (ADF) and education activities. Festival debuts by choreographers Tommy Noonan & Murielle Elizéon, Taylor 2 Dance Company, Graham 2, and Dorrance Dance. The festival also |
| 2018 | $60,000 | To support presentations and commissions of early to mid-career choreographers and a repertory company at the American Dance Festival, as well as dance presentations at New York Live Arts. Programming includes choreograp |
| 2017 | $70,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies from the United States and abroad, as part of the 2017 American Dance Festival. Programming includes commissioned works by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Mark Morri |
| 2016 | $70,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies from the United States and abroad, as part of the 2016 American Dance Festival. The festival programming will include commissioned works and world premieres by Bill T. Jones |
| 2015 | $70,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies from the United States and abroad, as part of the 2015 American Dance Festival. Titled "Dancing Across Cultures," the festival will feature modern dance companies from aroun |
| 2014 | $60,000 | To support the commissioning of works and performances during American Dance Festival. The project will feature the creation and presentation of new and reconstructed works by established and emerging artists such as Joh |
| 2013 | $65,000 | To support the American Dance Festival's 80th anniversary season. The festival will feature choreographers and companies who have played an important role at ADF such as Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Com |
| 2012 | $60,000 | To support the "What is a Dance Movement?" series. Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Judson Church dance movement, the presentations will feature artists from that era including Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, and David |
| 2011 | $70,000 | To support the "Dance and Visual Arts: Images that Move Us" series. The presentations will include the Trisha Brown, Paul Taylor, Pilobolus, and Shen Wei dance companies; reconstructions by Meredith Monk and Twyla Tharp; |
| 2010 | $70,000 | To support What is Dance Theater?, a series that will include works that blur the line between dance and theater. American Dance Festival will present a variety of American and international companies as well as commissi |
| 2009 | $70,000 | To support "Where Ballet and Modern Meet," a series that will explore the influences modern dance and ballet have had on each other. American Dance Festival will present a variety of American companies, commission new wo |
| 2009 | $50,000 | To support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn. |
| 2008 | $70,000 | To support the 75th Anniversary Season: Past/Forward. Dance works by recipients of the Scripps/ADF Awards will be presented by contemporary companies to demonstrate the respective choreographers' influence on modern danc |
| 2007 | $60,000 | To support "Pioneers and Frontiers: Tradition and Beyond II." The project will include the commissioning and presentation of American and international modern choreographers and a range of education and outreach activiti |
| 2006 | $70,000 | To support "Pioneers and Frontiers: Tradition and Beyond." The project will include the commissioning and presentation of American and international modern choreographers and a range of education and outreach activities. |
| 2005 | $60,000 | To support Mapping Modern Dance, a project to commission and present American and international modern dance choreographers. Performances will be accompanied by a range of education and outreach activities. |
| 2004 | $60,000 | To support Mapping Modern Dance, a project to commission and present American and international modern dance choreographers. Performances will be accompanied by a range of education and outreach activities. |
| 2003 | $70,000 | To support the commissioning and presentation of a range of modern dance choreographers. In addition to performances during American Dance Festival's 70th anniversary in 2003, the program will include educational activit |
| 2003 | $32,000 | To support the Institute for Dance Criticism 2004, a consortium project. Journalists will attend performances followed by discussion and analysis, classes, informal sessions, and seminars. |
| 2002 | $60,000 | To support the commissioning and presenting of a range of modern dance choreographers. In addition to performances, the Celebration! program series will include educational outreach activities. |
| 2002 | $20,000 | To support a Dance Critics Workshop, a consortium project. The critics will attend performances followed by sessions on writing, discussion and analysis, the history of dance, and dance criticism. |
| 2001 | $60,000 | To support the commissioning of a range of modern dance choreographers, as well as presenting historic works in modern dance history. The second and final year of Landmarks and Landscapers in Modern Dance - A Millennial |
| 2000 | $70,000 | To support the commission and presentation of a range of companies that showcase American modern dance. Landmarks and Landscapers in American Modern Dance-A Millennial Retrospective/Prospective will include performances, |
| 1999 | $70,000 | To support the commission and presentation of a range of companies that represent Expressionism in dance. Project activities will occur in 1998-99 and will include performances, commissions, reconstructions of dances, pa |
| 1999 | $50,000 | To support a statewide extended adult education consortium project with David Dorfman Dance. This project will consist of a series of specially-targeted residency activities with the American Dance Festival, North Caroli |
| 1998 | $65,000 | To support the commissioning and presenting of established and emerging artists in performances and residencies as part of American Dance Festival's 65th anniversary project. Artists to be presented during the festival i |
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