Dancing Grounds

Analysis

Dancing Grounds is a registered charity in United States, based in New Orleans, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Dancing Grounds reported income of $1.1m and spending of $889k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $429k to $1.1m (+155%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Dancing Grounds sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northwest Professional Dance Project ($1.1m), Opera Memphis Inc ($1.1m) and Sepm Society for Sedimentary Geology ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $467k. At year end it held assets of $602k against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $588k. It reported 13 employees.