Ballet nonprofit · Kansas City, MO

Kansas City Ballet Association

Kansas City Ballet Association is a tax-exempt ballet organization based in Kansas City, Missouri, recognized as exempt by the IRS in 1959. IRS activity category: Ballet (A630).

$16.2M
latest revenue
$56M
total assets
1959
exempt since
19
NEA dance grants
EIN
43-6052680
Location
Kansas City, MO 64108
Tax status
501(c)(3) · donations deductible
Classification
Publicly supported (gross receipts)
Latest tax period
2025-06
Income
$18,423,921

Financial history (Form 990)

2016$11.5M
2017$33.1M
2018$9M
2019$13.9M
2020$8.5M
2021$9.8M
2022$12.8M
2023$11.5M
YearRevenueExpensesContributionsAssets990
2023$11,528,310$11,009,039$5,276,072$48,422,046PDF
2022$12,814,564$10,115,657$7,437,531$44,028,561PDF
2021$9,818,532$5,946,138$5,514,324$45,461,137PDF
2020$8,481,892$9,717,032$3,123,847$41,562,557PDF
2019$13,918,325$9,910,899$7,586,782$42,232,881PDF
2018$9,001,489$10,006,078$2,734,290$38,298,379PDF
2017$33,143,240$10,326,107$27,090,446$39,194,649PDF
2016$11,452,028$10,603,864$5,569,319$15,519,473PDF

National Endowment for the Arts grants

YearAmountProject
2019$15,000To support the presentation of ballets. The company will dance In the Upper Room by Twyla Tharp with music by Philip Glass, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe with music by Thom Willems, and a world pre
2017$20,000To support the presentation of dance performances. Works include "The Lottery" by Val Caniparoli, "Interplay" by Jerome Robbins, and "Theme and Variations" by George Balanchine. The Kansas City Symphony will provide live
2014$20,000To support New Moves, a showcase for new dance works by emerging local and national choreographers. The program will afford Kansas City Ballet members the opportunity to create, produce, and perform works while learning
2013$20,000To support the presentation of a work by Karole Armitage, artistic director of Armitage Gone! Dance, based in New York City. This commission follows the success of Arctic Song, a work that Armitage, a Kansas native, crea
2012$20,000To support the performance of "Les Gentilhommes," choreographed by Peter Martins. The piece, set to Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 2 (Largo) (1739) by Georg Friedrich Handel, originally premiered on the New York City Ballet
2011$20,000To support the presentation of Jerome Robbins' ballet "Moves: A Ballet in Silence." Created in 1959, the work is performed without accompaniment and features the stark clarity of the body as an expressive instrument, pla
2010$20,000To support the production of a new work by Toni Pimble, Artistic Director of the Eugene Ballet. The work will premiere at the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City, and will feature music performed by the Kansas City Symphony.
2009$20,000To support the commissioning and world premiere of a new work by choreographer Karole Armitage. The work will premiere at the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City.
2008$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Donald McKayle during the company's 50th anniversary season. Hey-Hay, Going to Kansas City, will premiere a the Lyric Theater in Kansas City.
2007$20,000To support the presentation of "The Moor's Pavane" by choreographer Jose Limon. The work will be performed at the Lyric Theater in Kansas City.
2006$20,000To support the creation and presentation of The Catherine Wheel Suite, by choreographer Twyla Tharp, with music by David Byrne. The work will be performed at the new Performing Arts Center in Kansas City, MO.
2005$20,000To support the creation and presentation of two works by choreographers Twyla Tharp and Robert Hill. The company will perform Tharp's "As Time Goes By," and a world premiere by Robert Hill.
2004$20,000To support the creation and presentation of works by Val Caniparoli and Lila York. Lila York will create a world premiere and Val Caniparoli will re-stage LAMBARENA.
2003$20,000To support the presentation of works by choreographers Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Nacho Duato, and Alonzo King. Merce Cunningham's Duets, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, Nacho Duato's Jardi Tancat, and Alonzo
2002$10,000To present a series of solo works. The works include It Starts with a Step, by Lotte Goslar; Strange Hero, by Daniel Nagrin; Kaddish, by Anna Sokolow; Totem Ancestor, by Merce Cunningham; Debut at the Opera, by Agnes de
2001$10,000To support production costs and artists' fees for Phase II of the Renard Project. This is an archival/reconstruction effort to produce the Balanchine/Stravinsky Ballet Renard.
2000$20,000To support the re-creation of the lost George Balanchine ballet RENARD. Created in 1947 to the Igor Stravinsky composition of the same name, Renard will be reconstructed by original cast member Todd Bolender.
1999$15,000To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet. The work, entitled Suite Kander, will be choreographed by Ann Reinking to live music by John Kander for the State Ballet of Missouri.
1998$20,000To support a choreographic workshop for the development and presentation of young choreographers' works to be selected through an application process for the State Ballet of Missouri. Based on a pilot project, "In the Wi

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