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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by DANSPACE PROJECT INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,081,335
Total expenses
$1,401,787
Contributions and grants received
$2,024,799
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$51,927
Investment income
$487
Other revenue
$4,122
Total assets, end of year
$1,789,580
Total liabilities, end of year
$20,837
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,768,743
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$960,461
Management and general expenses
$206,470
Fundraising expenses
$234,856
Program service expenses (Part III)
$960,461

Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $109,224

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $123,730

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,791,845

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PERFORMANCE INCOME

    total $49,126 · related or exempt $49,126

  • 2b · Program service revenue: CONTRACTED SERVICES

    total $2,801 · related or exempt $2,801

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $487 · excluded $487

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $21,960

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $109,224

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $21,960

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $4,122 · related or exempt $4,122

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $4,122

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $126,368 · program services $68,239 · management and general $16,428 · fundraising $41,701

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $535,043 · program services $327,708 · management and general $84,847 · fundraising $122,488

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $82,497 · program services $53,575 · management and general $11,278 · fundraising $17,644

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $53,078 · program services $33,822 · management and general $7,216 · fundraising $12,040

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $21,191 · management and general $21,191

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $520 · management and general $520

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $20,080 · program services $18,512 · management and general $1,568

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $30,620 · program services $20,204 · management and general $5,691 · fundraising $4,725

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $213,322 · program services $168,965 · management and general $42,829 · fundraising $1,528

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,241 · program services $442 · management and general $267 · fundraising $532

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $1,013 · program services $22 · management and general $920 · fundraising $71

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $8,079 · program services $4,060 · management and general $4,019

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $11,296 · program services $5,773 · management and general $5,523

  • 24a · Other expenses: ARTISTS' FEES

    total $197,308 · program services $197,308

  • 24b · Other expenses: TECHNICAL AND OTHER PRO

    total $41,323 · program services $41,323

  • 24c · Other expenses: INDIRECT BENEFIT EXPENS

    total $32,161 · fundraising $32,161

  • 24d · Other expenses: PRODUCTION COSTS

    total $18,528 · program services $18,528 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $8,119 · program services $1,980 · management and general $4,173 · fundraising $1,966

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $50,332 · end of year $90,645

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $782,537 · end of year $823,024

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $247,370 · end of year $844,217

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $220 · end of year $460

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $14,984 · end of year $14,322

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $143,259

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $129,997

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $20,031 · end of year $13,262

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $189,035 · end of year $3,650

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $27,145 · end of year $20,837

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $188,169 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $737,220 · end of year $715,468

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $351,975 · end of year $1,053,275

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

DANSPACE PROJECT, INC. IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT PRESENTS DANCE WORKS AT ST. MARK'S CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERY AND AT OTHER VENUES IN NEW YORK CITY. FOUNDED BY ARTISTS IN 1974 AT THE HISTORIC LANDMARK OF ST. MARK'S CHURCH, DANSPACE PROJECT IS AN INTERNATIONAL LEADER IN THE COMMISSIONING AND PRESENTATION OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE. THE MISSION OF THE DANSPACE PROJECT IS TO PRESENT NEW WORKS IN DANCE, SUPPORT A DIVERSE RANGE OF CHOREOGRAPHERS IN DEVELOPING THEIR WORK, ENCOURAGE EXPERIMENTATION AND CONNECT ARTISTS TO AUDIENCES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DANSPACE PROJECT, INC. IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT PRESENTS DANCE WORKS AT ST. MARK'S CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERY AND AT OTHER VENUES IN NEW YORK CITY. FOUNDED BY ARTISTS IN 1974 AT THE HISTORIC LANDMARK OF ST. MARK'S CHURCH, DANSPACE PROJECT IS AN INTERNATIONAL LEADER IN THE COMISSIONING AND PRESENTATION OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE. THE MISSION OF THE DANSPACE PROJECT IS TO PRESENT NEW WORKS IN DANCE, SUPPORT A DIVERSE RANGE OF CHOREOGRAPHERS IN DEVELOPING THEIR WORK, ENCOURAGE EXPERIMENTATION AND CONNECT ARTISTS TO AUDIENCES.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $488,500 · Revenue $30,336

  • PLATFORM 2024: A DELICATE RITUALPLATFORMS ARE MULTI-WEEK SERIES OF PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS ORGANIZED BY GUEST-ARTIST-CURATORS AND THE DANSPACE CURATORIAL TEAM. THE PLATFORMS WERE CONCEIVED BY DANSPACE PROJECT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CURATOR JUDY HUSSIE-TAYLOR AS "EXHIBITIONS THAT UNFOLD OVER TIME AND ENACT CURATION AS A PROCESS OF COLLABORATIVE INQUIRIES DELVING INTO ARTISTIC, CHOREOGRAPHIC, AND CURATORIAL CONCERNS."PLATFORM 2024; A DELICATE RITUAL", WAS GUEST-CURATED BY KYLE ABRAHAM WHO LED WITH DANCE AS A "HOPEFUL PRACTICE" OF RITUAL, PULLING FROM HIS RECENT EXPERIMENTS CENTERING "LIFE, DEATH, PRAYER, VULNERABILITY, FEAR, AND DESIRE." DANSPACE BUILT ON A LONG-HELD RELATIONSHIP WITH ABRAHAM THAT BEGAN IN 2008 AND INCLUDED COMMISSIONING HIS FIRST MAJOR WORK, "THE RADIO SHOW", WHICH RECEIVED A BESSIE AWARD. FROM MAY 2-JUNE 8, PLATFORM 2024 INCLUDED 6 COMMISSIONS DURING SHARED EVENINGS OF INTERGENERATIONAL PAIRINGS: SHAMEL PITTS AND NICHOLAS RYAN GANT; TAISHA PAGGETT AND DAVID ROUSSVE; AND VINSON FRALEY AND BEBE MILLER. PLATFORM 2024 ALSO INCLUDED A CONVERSATIONS WITHOUT WALLS WITH ARTIST ABIGAIL DEVILLE, CHOREOGRAPHER JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO, COMPOSER SAMORA PINDERHUGHES, AND PLATFORM ARTISTS MILLER, FRALEY AND CURATOR ABRAHAM; HONORING THE LATE KEVIN WYNN, WHO WAS SCHEDULED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PLATFORM, 3 CLASSES TAUGHT BY HIS FORMER STUDENTS JASON RODRIGUEZ AND TAMISHA GUY AND A KEVIN WYNN MEMORIAL CELEBRATION WITH PERFORMANCES BY HIS FORMER COMPANY MEMBERS AND PURCHASE DANCE COMPANY FROM SUNY; AND, A PRINT CATALOGUE WITH PHOTOS BY GIONCARLO VALENTINE AND CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN PLATFORM ARTISTS AND CHOREOGRAPHER BETH GILL, PHOTOGRAPHER CARRIE SCHNEIDER, DIRECTOR CHARLOTTE BRATHWAITE, ECOLOGIST MARISA PREFER, ARBORIST ETHAN WOODS, AND ACUPUNCTURIST STEVE PANG.

    Expenses $283,200 · Revenue $22,116

  • RESIDENCIES AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPSDANSPACE INVITED TWO RESEARCH ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE, NIALL JONES AND LESLIE CUYJET, OFFERING FOUR OR MORE WEEKS OF SPACE, A FEE, CURATORIAL CONSULTATION, AND PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE AS REQUESTED. EMILY JOHNSON/CATALYST RECEIVED A WEEK-LONG CREATIVE RESIDENCY IN APRIL AND DANSPACE PROVIDED ANDROS ZINS-BROWNE WITH A WEEK-LONG RESIDENCY AT DENNISTON HILL IN UPSTATE NEW YORK WITH SUPPORT FROM THE NYS DANCEFORCE. DANSPACE ALSO OFFERED ARTISTS FROM EACH OF OUR PROGRAMS ADDITIONAL CREATIVE REHEARSAL TIME IN THE SPACE OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL WEEKS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. DANSPACE REMAINED ENGAGED IN A LONG-TERM DIALOGUE WITH ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOWS DEVYNN EMORY, OKWUI OKPOKWASILI, SAMITA SINHA, AND DAVID THOMSON AS PART OF DANSPACE'S CENTER FOR DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE IN THE ARTS (CDEA), A CREATIVE INCUBATOR AND EXPERIMENT AT THE INTERSECTION OF ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND EXPANSIVE THINKING. A BOOK LAUNCH FOR "REASSEMBLY" WAS PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CENTER FOR ART, RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES (CARA) FEATURING READINGS AND CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE FELLOWS AS WELL AS JOSEPH M. PIERCE AND DANSPACE'S JUDY HUSSIE-TAYLOR AND SETA MORTON.

    Expenses $140,129 · Revenue $700

  • DANSPACE'S FREE ONLINE JOURNAL PUBLISHED TWO VOLUMES FEATURING WRITING, IMAGES, AND VIDEO FROM ARTISTS AND WRITERS INCLUDING: DEVYNN EMORY, YO-YO LIN, MALCOLM-X BETTS, NOA RUI-PIIN WEISS, NORA RAINE THOMPSON, MAYFIELD BROOKS, CAMILLO RESTREPO, MINA NISHIMURA, AMANDA HAMELINE, ANDROS ZINS-BROWNE, NAIMAH PETIGNY, ANH VO, AND KOMA OTAKE. DANSPACE PROJECT CONTINUES TO OFFER AFFORDABLE OFFICE SPACE TO INDEPENDENT CHOREOGRAPHERS AS WELL AS PARTNER WITH PEER ORGANIZATIONS, ARTISTS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS REGULARLY, COMPRISING THE REMAINDER OF OUR PROGRAM SERVICES.

    Expenses $48,632 · Revenue $2,897

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Melissa Levin

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • David Parker

    OFFICER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rashaun Mitchell

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Judilee Reed

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Helen Warwick

    OFFICER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anthony Calnek

    OFFICER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Yona Backer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Suzanne Bocanegra

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Fanger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Thomas Lax

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Needham

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Eiko Otake

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nina Winthrop

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Judy Hussie-Taylor

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $126,368
    From this org
    $108,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,630
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
14 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202521359349303477

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