Dance nonprofit · San Francisco, CA

Alonzo King Lines Ballet

Alonzo King Lines Ballet is a tax-exempt dance organization based in San Francisco, California, recognized as exempt by the IRS in 1984. IRS activity category: Dance (A620).

$4M
latest revenue
$6.6M
total assets
1984
exempt since
30
NEA dance grants
EIN
94-2933309
Location
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tax status
501(c)(3) · donations deductible
Classification
Publicly supported (gross receipts)
Latest tax period
2025-06
Income
$4,173,038

Financial history (Form 990)

2016$5.1M
2017$6.2M
2018$5.2M
2019$5M
2020$4.8M
2021$9.2M
2022$7.2M
2023$6M
YearRevenueExpensesContributionsAssets990
2023$6,047,010$6,838,689$2,969,770$10,839,504PDF
2022$7,182,657$5,648,067$4,892,261$9,671,611PDF
2021$9,164,324$3,319,153$8,121,493$8,020,551PDF
2020$4,763,140$4,836,881$2,135,488$2,083,599PDF
2019$5,015,110$5,993,034$1,161,938$2,163,274PDF
2018$5,168,699$5,450,619$1,489,117$3,313,821PDF
2017$6,206,621$5,356,959$2,362,140$3,448,292PDF
2016$5,128,378$5,079,706$1,584,404$2,492,481PDF

National Endowment for the Arts grants

YearAmountProject
2025$20,000Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new work with choreography by Artistic Director Alonzo King. Additional Project Description: The work will include live music by c
2023$10,000Purpose: To support staff salaries for a project to archive 40 years of Alonzo King LINES Ballet materials. Additional Project Description: The collection includes archival materials such as videos of performances, lectu
2022$10,000Purpose: To support staff salaries for the planning and creation of a new work set to the music of Alice and John Coltrane. Additional Project Description: The first ballet Alonzo King choreographed was to Alice Coltrane
2021$80,000To support the restaging and presentation of "The Collective Agreement," by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The work includes an orchestral score and light installation by long-time collaborators jazz pianist and composer
2020$30,000To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Alonzo King and vocalist Lisa Fischer. The work will use dancers from LINES Ballet to explore the spiritual convergence of music and movement.
2019$25,000To support preparations and rehearsal costs for a new work by choreographer Alonzo King. The project will support the development of choreography and artistic fees.
2018$20,000To support the creation and world premiere of a ballet by Alonzo King, in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. The work will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco as part of Alonzo King LINES
2017$20,000To support the creation of a new ballet by Alonzo King, in collaboration with Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain. Creation and performances of the work will take place in San Francisco. Archival information about the 35-y
2016$20,000To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage choreographers with a variety of dance styles to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Ballet Training Program and the LINES
2015$40,000To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage choreographers with a variety of styles to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Ballet training program and the LINES Balle
2014$50,000To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage diverse choreographers to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Ballet training programs.
2013$20,000To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage approximately 25 diverse choreographers to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Ballet training program, and the LINES Ball
2012$20,000To support the creation and presentation of work by choreographer Alonzo King, in collaboration with bassist and composer Edgar Meyer. The project will include post-performance question-and-answer sessions, as well as fr
2011$25,000To support the creation of a new work by artistic director Alonzo King. The new work will infuse the classical form of ballet with Sephardic song, music originating from the Jewish communities of medieval Spain and Portu
2010$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director and choreographer Alonzo King in collaboration with architect Christopher Haas. The new work will premiere as part of LINES Ballet's fall home s
2009$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director and choreographer Alonzo King. The new work will premiere as part of LINES Ballet's fall home season at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in S
2009$50,000To support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.
2008$25,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The work will be created in collaboration with legendary jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.
2006$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Alonzo King. The work will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
2005$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a work choreographed by artistic director Alonzo King in collaboration with Moroccan musicians. The work will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater and at the
2004$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Alonzo King in collaboration with composer and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
2003$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work based on folk-based musical forms from the American South by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The piece will be based on folk-based music from the American South, and
2002$10,000To support creation of a new dance work. This work will be choreographed by Alonzo King to music by Polish composer Pawel Syzmanski.
2001$5,000To support a multimedia dance project and gallery installation. The project, choreographed by Yaelisa, incorporates flamenco dance and music, classical music, and spoken text with onstage projections of flamenco photogra
2001$10,000To support creation of a new work. Artistic Director Alonzo King will create a piece to music by Nzamba Lela, a group of musicians from the Central African Republic.
2000$10,000To support creation and presentation of a new ballet by choreographer Alonzo King. The ballet will have stage effects designed and created by interdisciplinary artist Ed Tannenbaum in consultation with lighting designer
2000$10,000To support the presentation of a national tour.
1999$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere ballet by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The piece will be set to previously unrecorded music by Henryk Gorecki.
1999$10,000To support the development of "Passage of the Muse," a 45 minute flamenco choreography for theater based on the "Cante Hondo" (Deep Song). Composed to original music by Juan Antonio Suarez, the piece will include a recit
1998$18,000To support the creation of a ballet choreographed by Alonzo King with music by Zakir Hussain.

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