Dance nonprofit · Brooklyn, NY

Dance Works Inc

Dance Works Inc is a tax-exempt dance organization based in Brooklyn, New York, recognized as exempt by the IRS in 1975. IRS activity category: Dance (A62Z).

$1.1M
latest revenue
$359K
total assets
1975
exempt since
27
NEA dance grants
EIN
23-7426261
Location
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tax status
501(c)(3) · donations deductible
Classification
Publicly supported (government)
Latest tax period
2025-06
Income
$1,121,601

Financial history (Form 990)

2017$654.2K
2018$626K
2019$804.7K
2020$1.2M
2021$1M
2022$1.2M
2023$1.1M
2024$1.1M
YearRevenueExpensesContributionsAssets990
2024$1,068,681$1,252,322$200,907$337,251PDF
2023$1,144,838$1,285,012$283,606$587,830PDF
2022$1,217,812$1,100,478$392,731$635,709PDF
2021$1,018,581$1,055,194$455,181$674,267PDF
2020$1,153,055$866,867$527,983$637,427PDF
2019$804,662$819,100$237,980$275,218PDF
2018$625,996$796,158$223,282$295,024—
2017$654,152$729,292$218,899$451,011PDF

National Endowment for the Arts grants

YearAmountProject
2026$20,000Purpose: To support the Pentacle Legacy Project, which will gather oral histories, create an archive, and produce events celebrating Pentacle's 50 years in the dance community. Additional Project Description: The archive
2023$20,000Purpose: To support the relaunch of an online administrative platform to increase the capacity of performing artists. Additional Project Description: Pentacle's online platform nextSteps will offer business infrastructur
2022$15,000Purpose: To support Pentacle's fiscal and infrastructure support services for artists. Additional Project Description: The program will offer free or highly subsidized fiscal and infrastructure support services to artist
2021$15,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities will include mentoring, administrative support, work sessions on arts administration topics, performance opportunities, and free
2020$10,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities will include mentoring, administrative support, work sessions on arts administration topics, and performance opportunities. Penta
2019$30,000To support Pentacle's research and comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities include mentoring, administrative support such as direct staffing and internships, information sharing, work session
2018$40,000To support Pentacle's research and comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities include mentoring, administrative support such as direct staffing and internships, information sharing, and technica
2017$40,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. The program provides mentoring, administrative support (direct staffing and internships), information sharing, and technical assistance to s
2016$40,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community project. The program integrates Capacity Bootcamp, Pentacle's new management initiative, along with its existing support programs: Gallery Se
2015$40,000To support Pentacle's Help Desk and Back Office programs. Pentacle provides artists administrative and management support so they can focus on creating and performing their work. Help Desk pairs dance companies/artists w
2014$30,000To support the Arts Management Paradigm, a series of infrastructure support programs for small and mid-sized dance companies and independent choreographers. The project will focus on Help Desk to You (HD2U), which will e
2013$30,000To support the Arts Management Paradigm, a series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized companies and independent choreographers in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. The project will
2012$30,000To support Pentacle's series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized dance companies in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. The project will include the "Help Desk" and "Back Office" programs, which fac
2011$35,000To support Pentacle's series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized New York and Los Angeles dance companies. The programs will include the Helpdesk/Chicago, Cultivating Leadership in Dance internship
2010$30,000To support Helpdesk/L.A. 2/18/11: Project reduced to Helpdesk/L.A.
2009$30,000To support Help Desk/L.A. and its Showcase Project. Per 12/11 request -- ARC mentoring program supporting artists in southern California will not occur during this period of time; need to grow the Help Desk/LA program.
2008$30,000To support Pentacle's mentoring program ARC (Advancement - Reinvention - Creativity). The project will encourage choreographers to support a major planning goal, and then provide them with planning and implementation sup
2007$30,000To support Pentacle's artist mentorship program. Help Desk2 provides technical assistance to emerging and mid-career choreographers.
2006$30,000To support the Help Desk artist mentorship program. Help Desk provides technical assistance to emerging and mid-career choreographers.
2005$35,000To support Help Desk, an artist mentorship program. Help Desk provides technical assistance to emerging and mid-career choreographers.
2004$35,000To support an artist mentorship program. The Help Desk provides technical assistance to emerging and mid-career choreographers.
2003$40,000To support the fifth cycle of an artist mentorship program. The Help Desk provides technical assistance to emerging and mid-career choreographers.
2002$30,000To support the fourth cycle of an artist mentorship program. The Help Desk provides technical assistance for emerging and mid-career choreographers.
2001$30,000To support cycle three of the Help Desk. The project provides technical assistance for emerging and mid-career choreographers.
2000$30,000To support cycle two of the Help Desk project. This project provides technical assistance to choreographers and small dance companies.
1999$70,000To support a consortium project of an international dance creative residency program designed to provide new support structures for choreographers often characterized as mid-career. Pentacle, Danspace Project, Snug Harbo
1999$30,000To support establishment of a new resource called the Help Desk which will provide technical assistance to choreographers and small dance companies. These services will be targeted to the needs of emerging artists and co

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