Dance nonprofit · Philadelphia, PA

Balletx

Balletx is a tax-exempt dance organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recognized as exempt by the IRS in 2002. IRS activity category: Dance (A62).

$5M
latest revenue
$14.2M
total assets
2002
exempt since
8
NEA dance grants
EIN
31-1784286
Location
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Tax status
501(c)(3) · donations deductible
Classification
Publicly supported (gross receipts)
Latest tax period
2025-07
Income
$4,990,943

Financial history (Form 990)

2016$1.7M
2017$1.9M
2018$4.3M
2019$2.6M
2020$2.1M
2021$3.1M
2022$4M
2023$3.8M
YearRevenueExpensesContributionsAssets990
2023$3,760,708$3,515,356$2,394,587$5,859,166PDF
2022$3,970,836$3,091,350$3,025,742$5,194,722PDF
2021$3,053,973$2,442,352$2,692,691$4,518,950PDF
2020$2,133,255$2,361,752$1,614,445$3,919,705PDF
2019$2,634,411$2,469,799$1,647,700$3,914,632PDF
2018$4,282,303$1,994,387$3,648,090$3,706,857PDF
2017$1,931,160$1,613,291$1,100,247$1,387,298PDF
2016$1,743,412$1,567,775$1,095,376$1,082,868PDF

National Endowment for the Arts grants

YearAmountProject
2026$30,000Purpose: To support a community dance festival, as part of America250. Additional Project Description: Presented in partnership with the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and ArtPhilly, the festival will include dance
2025$15,000Purpose: To support a community dance festival hosted by BalletX. Additional Project Description: The festival will include dance works by various choreographers, performed by BalletX, as well as pre-show performances by
2024$15,000Purpose: To support a community dance festival hosted by BalletX. Additional Project Description: The festival will include dance works by various choreographers performed by the company as well as pre-show performances
2022$10,000Purpose: To support choreographer fees for a residency and the production of a new dance work. Additional Project Description: Choreographer Jennifer Archibald will create the new work, which will combine hip-hop and bal
2020$20,000To support the creation and virtual presentation of The Under Way by choreographer Rena Butler and composer Darryl Hoffman. The contemporary ballet is inspired by the Underground Railroad and its connection to Philadelph
2019$10,000To support the creation of sets and costumes for Le Petit Prince, a new ballet by choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book, this full-length ballet will invite adults and children ali
2016$10,000To support the presentation of BalletX's Summer Series 2016. The project will include world premiere ballets by choreographers Anabelle Lopez Ochoa and BalletX co-founder Matthew Neenan. The works will be created in coll
2015$10,000To support a full program of works by choreographer Adam Hougland. The works to be presented include "Risk of Flight" (2007), "Mash Up" (2012), and a world premiere by Hougland featuring music by Philadelphia singer-song

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Organization data from the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File (public domain); Form 990 figures via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer; grants from the NEA Grant Search. Street addresses are not shown. Figures are as reported to the IRS.

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