Ballet nonprofit · Memphis, TN

Ballet Memphis Corporation

Ballet Memphis Corporation is a tax-exempt ballet organization based in Memphis, Tennessee, recognized as exempt by the IRS in 1979. IRS activity category: Ballet (A630).

$3M
latest revenue
$33.4M
total assets
1979
exempt since
15
NEA dance grants
EIN
62-1018942
Location
Memphis, TN 38104
Tax status
501(c)(3) · donations deductible
Classification
Publicly supported (government)
Latest tax period
2025-06
Income
$3,067,245

Financial history (Form 990)

2016$12.4M
2017$11.5M
2018$15.3M
2019$3.7M
2020$3.1M
2021$2.9M
2022$4.3M
2023$2.7M
YearRevenueExpensesContributionsAssets990
2023$2,662,090$4,436,052$1,041,193$34,027,733PDF
2022$4,251,856$3,856,262$2,677,827$34,630,248PDF
2021$2,867,541$3,459,528$1,941,031$37,880,130PDF
2020$3,071,797$4,655,982$1,407,499$34,301,954PDF
2019$3,688,841$4,932,442$1,176,785$37,218,336PDF
2018$15,298,127$5,420,794$13,791,063$39,832,658PDF
2017$11,477,166$3,976,050$9,950,859$32,123,790PDF
2016$12,395,171$4,212,767$10,828,331$21,048,782PDF

National Endowment for the Arts grants

YearAmountProject
2023$10,000Purpose: To support planning and development for Ballet Memphis' updated production of "Nutcracker." Additional Project Description: The project will include choreographic workshops and surveys. The surveys will provide
2019$10,000To support choreographer and lighting designer fees for the creation and presentation of new and existing dance works. The works' themes include natural bodies of water, life cycles, and impact of heat on our planet. The
2017$10,000To support the production and performances of three dance works. The company will perform work by George Balanchine, Trey McIntyre, and Julia Adam. A performance will include a pay-what-you-can opportunity.
2016$10,000To support the presentation of "Places," a performance of new dance works, which explores themes of the past, present, and future. Choreographer Joshua Peugh will create a new work focusing on the past to music by the Me
2015$10,000To support the presentation of a new work titled "I Am." The work will include four original pieces titled "I Am Woman," "I Am Man," "I Am Child," and "I Am." "I Am" will explore themes of self-definition, equality, and
2014$10,000To support the creation and presentation of dance works in a program titled World Wonders. Works presented will include Matthew Neenan's "Water of the Flowery Mill," Gabrielle Lamb's "Manifold," a new work by Ballet Memp
2013$10,000To support AbunDANCE, an evening of dance performances which will consist of repertory work and a commissioned world premiere. The company will perform Trey McIntyre's High Lonesome, Julia Adam's Crossing, Shapiro and Sm
2011$20,000To support the creation and presentation of "Where the Girls Are 2." The project will include the works of choreographers Jane Comfort, Julia Adams, Damien Patterson, Emily Coates, and Lacina Coulibaly.
2010$15,000To support the creation and presentation of AbunDance: Make a Joyful Noise, a series of dances based on vocal sounds. The works will be choreographed by Trey McIntyre, Jane Comfort, Robert Battle, and Petr Zahradnicek.
2009$10,000To support the creation and presentation of AbunDance:Visual Riches, a series of dances based on a work of art seen at a local museum or gallery. The works will be choreographed by Camille Brown, Jane Hope Rehm, Dana Tai
2008$10,000To support the creation and presentation of dances based on religious music. The works will be choreographed by Julia Adam, Trey McIntyre, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, and Abou Lagraa, and will be presented at the Orpheum Thea
2005$10,000To support the New Works+New Artists series. The project enables aspiring choreographers from the company to choreograph on professional dancers.
2004$9,478To support choral artists' fees for restaging the program, "As the Spirit Moves You," in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday in 2005. Ballet Memphis will collaborate with the STAX Music Academy's StreetCorner Har
2003$10,000To support two world premieres during the Dancing Together III repertory show. The premieres will be created by choreographer Trey McIntyre and Associate Artistic Director Karl Condon.
2001$10,000To support a repertory show entitled "Dancing Together II." The company will perform an encore of Trey McIntyre's Second Before the Ground, and Rennie Harris Puremovement, a Philadelphia hip-hop troupe, will perform a pi

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