Ballet nonprofit · Chicago, IL

The Joffrey Ballet

The Joffrey Ballet is a tax-exempt ballet organization based in Chicago, Illinois, recognized as exempt by the IRS in 1995. IRS activity category: Ballet (A630).

$39.7M
latest revenue
$64.1M
total assets
1995
exempt since
25
NEA dance grants
EIN
36-4009741
Location
Chicago, IL 60601
Tax status
501(c)(3) · donations deductible
Classification
Publicly supported (government)
Latest tax period
2025-06
Income
$51,340,462

Financial history (Form 990)

2016$19.9M
2017$20.9M
2018$26.1M
2019$21.9M
2020$25.2M
2021$12.6M
2022$28.7M
2023$26.5M
YearRevenueExpensesContributionsAssets990
2023$26,502,727$26,332,545$12,692,985$47,792,611PDF
2022$28,659,999$21,254,158$18,649,835$46,494,306PDF
2021$12,576,025$10,647,502$8,956,604$41,269,610PDF
2020$25,249,561$19,430,694$15,523,983$37,690,398—
2019$21,927,570$23,365,265$8,557,477$31,262,231PDF
2018$26,094,516$21,200,352$11,367,842$32,336,013PDF
2017$20,877,851$19,599,699$8,469,513$27,029,368PDF
2016$19,856,311$18,779,596$7,469,431$25,867,475PDF

National Endowment for the Arts grants

YearAmountProject
2024$20,000Purpose: To support the commissioning of new works from emerging choreographers as part of the Winning Works Competition. Additional Project Description: The program will provide choreographers time in the studio to crea
2023$10,000Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works as part of the Winning Works choreographic competition. Additional Project Description: The Joffrey will provide emerging choreographers with a stipend and
2022$10,000Purpose: To support the creation and production of the family-friendly ballet Rita Finds Home, to be performed by the Joffrey Academy's advanced pre-professional students. Additional Project Description: The work will be
2021$10,000To support artist fees for the creation of a new one-act ballet production of Of Mice and Men by Cathy Marston. Based on John Steinbeck's novel, the work will feature a new score composed by Thomas Newman.
2020$10,000To support the presentation of Bliss!, a short ballet by choreographer Stephanie Martinez. Set to Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, the ballet is based on the life of philanthropist and art collector Mildred Bli
2019$10,000To support the world premiere of Anna Karenina by choreographer Yuri Possokhov. The work will be a full-length story ballet that offers an emotional and intellectual space to explore some of the heart's greatest conundru
2018$15,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Nicolas Blanc, Joffrey Ballet master and principal coach. The work will transport audiences through five worlds amid composer Mason Bates' orchestral and electron
2017$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. The work will explore the relationship between design and dance. Ekman's work is known for its fast-paced timing, witty hum
2016$30,000To support the choreography license for creation and presentation of a re-imagined "Nutcracker," choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Robert Joffrey's "Nutcracker" has been in the Joffrey's repertoire since 1987; howev
2015$20,000To support the Chicago premiere of "Tulle" by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. Premiered in 2012 at the Royal Opera House of Stockholm, "Tulle" was Ekman's first piece working with pointe shoes and the classical ba
2014$20,000To support the presentation of "Crossing Ashland," a ballet by Chicago-based choreographer Brock Clawsom. The work will be featured as part of the Contemporary Choreographers Program. Audience members will have the oppor
2013$15,000To support the "Lemonis Bridge Program." The initiative focuses on classical ballet training in Chicago's underserved communities for students in the first and second grades.
2012$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new piece by choreographer Val Caniparoli. This will be Caniparoli's first piece for the company, which will be set to Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz. 106, BB 1
2011$30,000To support the creation and presentation of works by choreographers Edwaard Liang and Yuri Possokhov. Liang, a New York City Ballet dancer/choreographer, will be creating his second work for the company and Yuri Possokho
2010$30,000To support the creation and presentation of new works by choreographers James Kudelka and Jessica Lang and a revival of co-founder Gerald Arpino's "Reflections."
2009$30,000To support the preservation of 50 years of video material. The video archive contains recordings of performances, rehearsals, and choreographic workshops of ballets by co-founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, as wel
2008$30,000To support the presentation of ballets by Antony Tudor. The project will feature Lilac Garden, Dark Elegies, and Offenbach in the Underworld.
2007$30,000To support the presentation of ballets as part of the company's 50th anniversary celebration in a program titled "Destiny's Dances." The ballets will include Leonide Massine's Les Presages, Kurt Jooss' The Green Table, a
2006$30,000To support the presentation of a revival of Twyla Tharp's "Deuce Coupe" and a newly commissioned work by Donald Byrd. Twyla Tharp's Deuce Coupe will be performed to music by the Beach Boys, and the newly commissioned wor
2005$30,000To support the presentation of dances at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago. The American Masterworks program will feature Square Dance, by George Balanchine; New York Export: Opus Jazz!, by Jerome
2004$30,000To support the presentation of The Ashton Evening. The program will commemorate the centennial of the birth of Sir Frederick Ashton, the late artistic director of the Royal Ballet of London.
2003$30,000To support the presentation of historic ballets from the Ballets Russes. The ballets include Les Noces, Parade, and Le Sacre du Printemps.
2002$20,000To support the revival of a ballet. The piece to be revived is Robert Joffrey's Astarte, which premiered in 1968.
2001$20,000To support the acquisition and revival of up to four ballets. These ballets include Sacre de Printemps, Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden, and John Cranko's Taming of the Shrew and Jeux.
2000$10,000To support the acquisition and presentation for an all-Copland evening, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the composer's birth. Using the choreography of Martha Graham, Eugene Loring, Randy Duncan, and Tony Powell,

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