$1.6M
latest revenue
$2M
total assets
1972
exempt since
31
NEA dance grants
- EIN
- 23-7161084
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3) · donations deductible
- Classification
- Publicly supported (gross receipts)
- Latest tax period
- 2025-06
- Income
- $1,646,234
Financial history (Form 990)
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Contributions | Assets | 990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $1,592,521 | $1,873,159 | $1,268,347 | $2,391,209 | |
| 2022 | $3,318,926 | $1,251,939 | $2,826,190 | $2,718,509 | |
| 2021 | $1,226,159 | $734,164 | $842,382 | $807,562 | |
| 2020 | $1,471,955 | $1,197,642 | $1,051,085 | $562,665 | |
| 2019 | $600,602 | $798,552 | $318,884 | $166,270 | |
| 2018 | $849,629 | $838,756 | $540,097 | $311,880 | |
| 2017 | $726,152 | $708,371 | $447,998 | $214,435 | |
| 2016 | $583,318 | $803,797 | $290,135 | $185,879 |
National Endowment for the Arts grants
| Year | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a program featuring works created in and inspired by the city of Philadelphia. Additional Project Description: A collaboration between PHILADANCO! and Philadelphia Int |
| 2025 | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Then & Now, a program featuring both remounted and a newly commissioned work, with related engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The project will feature Donald By |
| 2024 | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "Our Voices, Our Choices...This is Us," a program exploring the unique and dynamic voices of women choreographers, including Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Dawn Marie Baze |
| 2023 | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a program featuring an historic Black Dance work and new works by contemporary choreographers. Additional Project Description: Artistic Director Kim Bears-Bailey will |
| 2022 | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new works by emerging choreographers. Additional Project Description: The selected choreographers will feature Francisco Gella and Ephrat Asherie. The project will inc |
| 2021 | $30,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | $35,000 | To support the creation and presentation of PHILADANCO!'s Fast Forward: New Work, New Voices, a program that will feature the work of new and emerging choreographers. Celebrating 50 years, the project will include works |
| 2019 | $35,000 | To support free student matinees, choreographic workshops, and professional training and rehearsals. Philadanco! performances will take place at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and the project will include chor |
| 2018 | $30,000 | To support the development and creation of new works by PHILADANCO! alumni. Success Stories will celebrate the innovation and creativity of the artists. The project will allow them to continue to develop as choreographer |
| 2017 | $30,000 | To support the development and restaging of significant works by African-American artists for PHILADANCO! program, "H-I-S-T-O-R-Y/African American Style." Sonia Dawkins, founder and artistic director of Sonia Dawkins/Pri |
| 2016 | $50,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works. PHILADANCO! will engage established choreographer Thang Dao (Vietnam) and emerging choreographer Francisco Gella (Philippines) as part of the "Global Artistry" proje |
| 2015 | $50,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new and classic repertory works by four African American female choreographers in celebration of the company's 45th anniversary. The project will include two world premiere com |
| 2014 | $50,000 | To support the re-construction and presentation of choreographer Ulysses Dove's "Bad Blood." The choreographer's brother, Alfred Dove, will assist in the restaging of this work which will be further preserved through a L |
| 2013 | $60,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Christopher Huggins. Education and outreach activities will include workshops, performances for school-aged youth, lecture-demonstrations, master cl |
| 2012 | $60,000 | To support the restaging and video documentation of "Suite Otis," choreographed by George Faison. Rehearsal footage and interviews with Faison, executive artistic director Joan Myers Brown, and company members, will be d |
| 2011 | $30,000 | To support Philadanco's creation and presentation of a new work by hip-hop choreographer Lorenzo "Rennie" Harris, and the revival of choreographer Billy Wilson's Rosa (1990), a work in tribute to Rosa Parks. The works wi |
| 2010 | $10,000 | To support the 22nd Annual International Conference of Blacks in Dance, in consortium with The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The conference will bring together dance professionals from across the United States, |
| 2010 | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by dancer/choreographer Ray Mercer. The work will premiere at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary. |
| 2009 | $30,000 | To support the restaging and presentation by Philadanco of dance works by choreographers Talley Beatty and Gene Hill Sagan during the company's 40th anniversary in 2010. The works will be part of a retrospective of Afric |
| 2008 | $30,000 | To support the presentation and documentation of "Ritonello" by Gene Hill Sagan, and "Pretty is Skin Deep, Ugly is to the Bone" by Talley Beatty. |
| 2007 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of Dance for Six, choreographed by Joyce Trisler, and the creation and presentation of a new work by Milton Myers. The works will be performed at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. |
| 2006 | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works. Choreographers creating the works include Carmen de Lavallade, Rennie Harris, Christopher Huggins, and Robert Moses. |
| 2005 | $30,000 | To support the expansion of outreach activities to underserved youths, schools, and community groups in Philadelphia and while on tour. The company will offer post-performance question and answer series, lecture-demonstr |
| 2004 | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works during the company's 35th anniversary. Ronald K. Brown and Geoffrey Holder will create the works which will then become part of the company's touring repertory. |
| 2003 | $35,000 | To support the commissioning of a new work by Alonzo King. Alonzo King's work will appear during the company's residency at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. |
| 2002 | $30,000 | To support an increase in Philadanco's outreach programs. Programs will include workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations, and career development conferences. |
| 2001 | $17,000 | To support a leadership enhancement project. |
| 2000 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of new and revised works during the 30th-Anniversary home series. Works by choreographers Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Eva M. Gholson, Bebe Miller, and Elisa Monte will be included in the home seri |
| 2000 | $20,000 | To support the development of new ways for the International Association of Blacks in Dance to secure revenue and expand services to its members. The process includes funding the executive director's salary, stabilizing |
| 1999 | $40,000 | To support the creation of a program of up to four works by leading African-American choreographers from different generations. Emerging choreographers Ronald K. Brown and David Brown, and established choreographers Milt |
| 1999 | $20,000 | To support a planning process for the International Association of Blacks in Dance that will identify new sources of revenue and additional services for member companies. The Association now serves over 140 members and p |
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