$39.7M
latest revenue
$64.1M
total assets
1995
exempt since
25
NEA dance grants
- EIN
- 36-4009741
- Location
- Chicago, IL 60601
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3) · donations deductible
- Classification
- Publicly supported (government)
- Latest tax period
- 2025-06
- Income
- $51,340,462
Financial history (Form 990)
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Contributions | Assets | 990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $26,502,727 | $26,332,545 | $12,692,985 | $47,792,611 | |
| 2022 | $28,659,999 | $21,254,158 | $18,649,835 | $46,494,306 | |
| 2021 | $12,576,025 | $10,647,502 | $8,956,604 | $41,269,610 | |
| 2020 | $25,249,561 | $19,430,694 | $15,523,983 | $37,690,398 | — |
| 2019 | $21,927,570 | $23,365,265 | $8,557,477 | $31,262,231 | |
| 2018 | $26,094,516 | $21,200,352 | $11,367,842 | $32,336,013 | |
| 2017 | $20,877,851 | $19,599,699 | $8,469,513 | $27,029,368 | |
| 2016 | $19,856,311 | $18,779,596 | $7,469,431 | $25,867,475 |
National Endowment for the Arts grants
| Year | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the commissioning of new works from emerging choreographers as part of the Winning Works Competition. Additional Project Description: The program will provide choreographers time in the studio to crea |
| 2023 | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works as part of the Winning Works choreographic competition. Additional Project Description: The Joffrey will provide emerging choreographers with a stipend and |
| 2022 | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of the family-friendly ballet Rita Finds Home, to be performed by the Joffrey Academy's advanced pre-professional students. Additional Project Description: The work will be |
| 2021 | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the creation of a new one-act ballet production of Of Mice and Men by Cathy Marston. Based on John Steinbeck's novel, the work will feature a new score composed by Thomas Newman. |
| 2020 | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Bliss!, a short ballet by choreographer Stephanie Martinez. Set to Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, the ballet is based on the life of philanthropist and art collector Mildred Bli |
| 2019 | $10,000 | To support the world premiere of Anna Karenina by choreographer Yuri Possokhov. The work will be a full-length story ballet that offers an emotional and intellectual space to explore some of the heart's greatest conundru |
| 2018 | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Nicolas Blanc, Joffrey Ballet master and principal coach. The work will transport audiences through five worlds amid composer Mason Bates' orchestral and electron |
| 2017 | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. The work will explore the relationship between design and dance. Ekman's work is known for its fast-paced timing, witty hum |
| 2016 | $30,000 | To support the choreography license for creation and presentation of a re-imagined "Nutcracker," choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Robert Joffrey's "Nutcracker" has been in the Joffrey's repertoire since 1987; howev |
| 2015 | $20,000 | To support the Chicago premiere of "Tulle" by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. Premiered in 2012 at the Royal Opera House of Stockholm, "Tulle" was Ekman's first piece working with pointe shoes and the classical ba |
| 2014 | $20,000 | To support the presentation of "Crossing Ashland," a ballet by Chicago-based choreographer Brock Clawsom. The work will be featured as part of the Contemporary Choreographers Program. Audience members will have the oppor |
| 2013 | $15,000 | To support the "Lemonis Bridge Program." The initiative focuses on classical ballet training in Chicago's underserved communities for students in the first and second grades. |
| 2012 | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new piece by choreographer Val Caniparoli. This will be Caniparoli's first piece for the company, which will be set to Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz. 106, BB 1 |
| 2011 | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of works by choreographers Edwaard Liang and Yuri Possokhov. Liang, a New York City Ballet dancer/choreographer, will be creating his second work for the company and Yuri Possokho |
| 2010 | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by choreographers James Kudelka and Jessica Lang and a revival of co-founder Gerald Arpino's "Reflections." |
| 2009 | $30,000 | To support the preservation of 50 years of video material. The video archive contains recordings of performances, rehearsals, and choreographic workshops of ballets by co-founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, as wel |
| 2008 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of ballets by Antony Tudor. The project will feature Lilac Garden, Dark Elegies, and Offenbach in the Underworld. |
| 2007 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of ballets as part of the company's 50th anniversary celebration in a program titled "Destiny's Dances." The ballets will include Leonide Massine's Les Presages, Kurt Jooss' The Green Table, a |
| 2006 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of a revival of Twyla Tharp's "Deuce Coupe" and a newly commissioned work by Donald Byrd. Twyla Tharp's Deuce Coupe will be performed to music by the Beach Boys, and the newly commissioned wor |
| 2005 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of dances at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago. The American Masterworks program will feature Square Dance, by George Balanchine; New York Export: Opus Jazz!, by Jerome |
| 2004 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of The Ashton Evening. The program will commemorate the centennial of the birth of Sir Frederick Ashton, the late artistic director of the Royal Ballet of London. |
| 2003 | $30,000 | To support the presentation of historic ballets from the Ballets Russes. The ballets include Les Noces, Parade, and Le Sacre du Printemps. |
| 2002 | $20,000 | To support the revival of a ballet. The piece to be revived is Robert Joffrey's Astarte, which premiered in 1968. |
| 2001 | $20,000 | To support the acquisition and revival of up to four ballets. These ballets include Sacre de Printemps, Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden, and John Cranko's Taming of the Shrew and Jeux. |
| 2000 | $10,000 | To support the acquisition and presentation for an all-Copland evening, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the composer's birth. Using the choreography of Martha Graham, Eugene Loring, Randy Duncan, and Tony Powell, |
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