Dance nonprofit · Becket, MA

Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival Inc

Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival Inc is a tax-exempt dance organization based in Becket, Massachusetts, recognized as exempt by the IRS in 1943. IRS activity category: Dance (A620).

$19.1M
latest revenue
$83M
total assets
1943
exempt since
32
NEA dance grants
EIN
04-6002993
Location
Becket, MA 01223
Tax status
501(c)(3) · donations deductible
Classification
Publicly supported (government)
Latest tax period
2024-12
Income
$29,344,497

Financial history (Form 990)

2016$11.4M
2017$9.8M
2018$8.7M
2019$13.4M
2020$7.8M
2021$15.6M
2022$30.1M
2023$21.6M
YearRevenueExpensesContributionsAssets990
2023$21,631,296$12,682,082$15,210,948$76,388,875PDF
2022$30,079,261$12,166,132$22,107,833$63,745,502PDF
2021$15,555,045$9,091,756$13,513,598$50,618,453PDF
2020$7,759,521$5,388,657$7,655,340$41,117,765PDF
2019$13,361,559$8,160,299$9,760,445$37,023,372PDF
2018$8,726,464$7,995,579$4,540,673$32,253,425PDF
2017$9,792,736$7,337,132$6,136,245$33,603,574PDF
2016$11,374,973$6,845,256$8,215,201$26,992,915PDF

National Endowment for the Arts grants

YearAmountProject
2024$70,000Purpose: To support the presentation of Camille A. Brown and Dancers during the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The company will have a week-long engagement on the Pillow's campus. Performa
2023$75,000Purpose: To support artists fees of the presentation of dance companies during the 91st Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Artists to be presented include Compagnie Käfig, Complexions Contempo
2022$75,000Purpose: To support artist fees for the 90th anniversary of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present the Limon Dance Company, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, Cleo Parker Ro
2021$80,000To support artist fees for the Pillow Lab artist residency program and the presentation of dance artists at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. The festival will bring Brian Brooks Moving Company, Dallas Black Dance Theat
2020$85,000To support artist fees and commissions at the virtual Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. The festival will feature Brian Brooks Moving Company, Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, an
2019$108,000To support presentations and creative development residencies for dance artists at The Pillow. Programs will support the presentation of new works and the artistic development of a next generation of dance-makers. Artist
2018$90,000To support the presentation of dance artists as well as a variety of education and outreach activities at the Pillow. Creative Development Residencies will support the development of new work and the next generation of d
2017$100,000To support the presentation of dance artists as well as a variety of education and outreach activities. Creative Development Residencies will support the development of new work and the next generation of dance-makers. T
2016$100,000To support the presentation of dance artists as well as a variety of education and outreach activities. The artists will include Che Malambo! (Argentina); Aspen Santa Fe Ballet; Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus
2015$100,000To support the Creative Development Residency as well as the presentation of artists representing diverse dance forms. The Creative Development Residency is a commissioning program that supports the development of new wo
2014$80,000To support the Creative Development Residency program as well as the presentation of artists representing diverse contemporary dance forms. Artists may include Hong Kong Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, John Heginbotham/Da
2013$100,000To support the presentation of artists representing diverse dance forms including Brazilian hip-hop, classical Indian dance, modern dance, and ballet, and the Creative Development Residency. Artists will include Wendy Wh
2012$80,000To support the "Creative Development Residency Program" and audience engagement through the "Virtual Pillow," an electronic venue for producing Online content from the Jacob's Pillow Archives. Artists in residence will i
2011$90,000To support dance company residencies and performances. International companies in residence will include Ballet Geneve (Switzerland) and Laboratory Dance Project (South Korea); the US artists will include Trisha Brown an
2010$90,000To support residencies and performances of dance companies. The project will include a Creative Development Residency, presentation of national and international dance companies, and audience engagement and educational p
2010$50,000To support the recreation of works by jazz dance choreographer Jack Cole (1911-74). The project includes restaging a Cole work on pre-professional dance students attending The School at Jacob's Pillow along with a variet
2009$80,000To support residencies and performances of dance companies. The project will include a Creative Development Residency, presentation of national and international dance companies, and audience engagement and educational p
2009$60,000To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as part it's 50-year history with Jacob's Pillow, and Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday. The celebration will include audience engagement programming and e
2009$50,000To support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.
2008$70,000To support residencies and performances of dance companies. The project will include a Creative Development Residency, presentation of national and international dance companies, and audience engagement and educational p
2007$70,000To support residencies and performances of dance companies during Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival's 75th anniversary. The project will include a Creative Development Residency, presentation of national and international da
2006$70,000To support residencies and performances of dance companies. The project will include a Creative Development Residency Program, presentation of national and international dance companies, and an Audience Engagement Progra
2005$70,000To support residencies and performances of dance companies for the 2005 Festival. The project will include a Creative Development Residency Program, presentation of national and international dance companies, and an Audi
2004$70,000To support residencies and performances of dance companies. Festival 2004 will include work that ranges from ancient traditional forms to contemporary experimental dance.
2003$70,000To support the residencies and performances of dance companies. Up to six artists will be presented during the series Breaking Ground in Context.
2002$70,000To support dance presentations during Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival's 70th anniversary. Each company will be in residence for a week and their work will be presented along with specially-curated events.
2001$70,000To support dance commissions, performances, and outreach activities. Artists to be presented include Urban Bush Women, a Cambodian Project, jazz tap artist Herbin "Tamango" Van Cayseele, the New Amsterdam Ballet Project,
2000$70,000To support the premiere of new works by up to six choreographers. Each engagement will offer an adult education curriculum of performances, participatory events, and public programs.
1999$70,000To support commissions, creative residencies, and world premiere performances by choreographers during Jacob Pillow's 1999 Festival. The Pillow has chosen to commission choreographers Trisha Brown, Sean Curran, Doug Varo
1999$50,000To support a consortium project entitled "What is Dance?: A Model for Dance Literacy." The consortium of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (Lee, MA), The Flynn Theatre of the Performing Arts (Burlington, VT), Bates Dance Fes
1998$60,000To support a consortium of presenters in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Minnesota to develop and present dance works by choreographers Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller, Bill T. Jones, Danny Buraczeski, and
1998$100,000To support the commissioning and presentation of dance works by American choreographers Merce Cunningham, Joanna Haigood, Elizabeth Streb, Laura Dean, and Susan Marshall in the celebration of the Millennium. Jacob's Pill

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