Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$3,567,279

Total expenses

$2,379,176

Contributions and grants received

$3,062,692

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$408,079

Investment income

$95,897

Other revenue

$611

Total assets, end of year

$5,414,252

Total liabilities, end of year

$153,357

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$5,260,895

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,254,075

Management and general expenses

$804,629

Fundraising expenses

$320,472

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,254,075

Program services were 52.7% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• FY25 SAW A CONTINUATION OF UBW'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS WITH OUR THIS IS RISK NATIONAL TOUR (OCTOBER 2024 - APRIL 2025), WHICH TRAVELED TO TALLAHASSEE, FL; NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ; BOSTON, MA; AND LARAMIE, WY, PERFORMING FOR 1,889 ATTENDEES. LOCALLY, FY25 PERFORMANCES OF THIS IS RISK AND OTHER UBW MIXED REPERTORY TOOK PLACE AT 92NY AND THE APOLLO FOR 1,520 AUDIENCE MEMBERS. WE ALSO TOURED EXCERPTS OF OUR SITE-RESPONSIVE WORK HAINT BLU TO WILLIAMSTOWN, MA AND BUFFALO, NY FOR 127 ATTENDEES.THE CENTERPIECE OF UBW'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMMING WAS THE NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE OF UBW FOUNDER JAWOLE WILLA JO ZOLLAR'S SCAT! THE COMPLEX LIVES OF AL & DOT, DOT & AL ZOLLAR IN FEBRUARY 2025 AT THE PERELMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY ZOLLAR IN COLLABORATION WITH JAZZ COMPOSER CRAIG HARRIS AND CO-CHOREOGRAPHED BY ZOLLAR AND VINCENT THOMAS WITH DRAMATURGY BY TALVIN WILKS, 'SCAT!' IS A POWERFUL TALE OF THE ZOLLAR FAMILY AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DREAMS ENCOUNTER THE REALITIES OF AMERICAN LIFE IN THE '40S AND '50S, MODELED AFTER THE GREAT TRADITION OF BLACK FLOOR SHOWS. SCAT! RAN FOR FOUR PERFORMANCES AT THE PAC FOR 1,042 ATTENDEES. BEFORE ITS RUN AT PAC NYC, SCAT! HAD ITS WEST COAST PREMIERE AT THE MARK TAPER FORUM (NOVEMBER 2024), PERFORMING FOR 2,825 AUDIENCE MEMBERS OVER FOUR PERFORMANCES.IN APRIL 2025, UBW SPENT TWO WEEKS IN RESIDENCY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO TEACHING WORKSHOPS AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE LOCAL PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS COMMUNITY. IN MAY, UBW HOSTED OUR GENERATIVE DANCER WORKSHOP AT MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP. PARTICIPANTS ENGAGED IN A PROCESS-BASED APPROACH TO UBW'S ART-MAKING INFORMED BY WHO IS IN THE ROOM--GROUNDED IN BLACK FEMINIST THEORY AND CENTERING RADICAL BLACK EXPERIMENTATION IN THE FIELDS OF CULTURE, POLITICS, IDENTITY, AND HISTORY.ACROSS FY25, UBW CONTINUED TO IMPLEMENT AND STRENGTHEN OUR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS IN SUPPORT OF UNDER-RESOURCED ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES OF COLOR. BUILDERS, ORGANIZERS, AND LEADERS IN DANCE (BOLD) WORKSHOPS ARE LED BY UBW STAFF AND A ROSTER OF TRAINED ARTIST-FACILITATORS. IN FY25, BOLD REACHED 1,108 PARTICIPANTS ACROSS 11 ENGAGEMENTS WITH ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING THE MUSIC CENTER IN LOS ANGELES, THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT, NATURALLY OCCURRING CULTURAL DISTRICTS NY, THE PEACE CORPS, BROOKLYN ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, 92NY, AND MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP, ARTSPOOL, SANTA FE COLLEGE, AND AND UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA. BOLD OFFERINGS WERE CONSOLIDATED INTO 4 CORE WORKSHOPS: 1) DANCE FOR EVERY BODY, EMBRACING EACH INDIVIDUAL'S UNIQUE AND POWERFUL CONTRIBUTION; 2) MINDFUL BODIES & REFLECTIVE PRACTICES, FOCUSING ON SELF-CARE, REJUVENATION, AND (RE-)CONSTRUCTING HEALTHFUL IMAGES OF OURSELVES AND OUR COMMUNITIES; 3) ENTERING, BUILDING, AND EXITING COMMUNITY (EBX), ROOTED IN UBW'S VALUE-CENTERED APPROACH FOR WORK IN COMMUNITIES; AND 4) COLLABORATION LAB, FACILITATING ARTISTIC CREATION BASED ON THEMES THAT EMERGE FROM THE GROUP. EACH WORKSHOP IS LED BY ONE OR MORE TRAINED ARTIST FACILITATORS, INCLUDING UBW COMPANY MEMBERS. WORKSHOP SIZE, DURATION, AND FEES ARE BASED ON THE NEEDS OF THE GROUP. UBW'S SUMMER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (SLI) IS A 10-DAY CONVENING THAT SERVES AS AN INCUBATION SPACE FOR ARTISTS, ORGANIZERS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS SEEKING TO BUILD SKILLS IN CULTURAL LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL JUSTICE, STORYTELLING, AND COMMUNITY-BASED ART. THE SLI WAS FORMALIZED IN 1992 AND HAS SINCE SERVED OVER 2,000 PARTICIPANTS RANGING IN AGE FROM TEENS TO ELDERS AND COMING FROM ACROSS THE U.S. AND ABROAD. PARTICIPANTS REGISTER ONLINE, WITH A PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN ENROLLMENT FEE. EACH SLI CULMINATES WITH TWO FREE, PUBLIC PERFORMANCES BY PARTICIPANTS. FOLLOWING THE COVID-19 SHUTDOWN, SLI HAS EXPERIMENTED WITH DIFFERENT FORMATS. IN FY25, WE LED AN INTERNAL VERSION FOR THE UBW TEAM, AND WE ARE CURRENTLY PLANNING AND PURSUING FUNDING FOR THE NEXT FULL SLI. UBW'S CHOREOGRAPHIC CENTER INITIATIVE (CCI) BEGAN IN 2013 AS A 10-YEAR INVESTMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN+ OF COLOR CHOREOGRAPHERS. SINCE THEN, THE PROGRAM HAS TAKEN MANY FORMS TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF OUR ARTISTS AND THE NATIONAL ARTS ECOLOGY. IN FY25, WE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENTAL PLANNING AND EXPLORATORY WORK FOR FUTURE ITERATIONS OF CCI. IN 2021, UBW LAUNCHED THE UBW ARCHIVE PROJECT TO DOCUMENT, PRESERVE, AND DIGITIZE UBW'S 40 YEAR HISTORY OF CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THE UBW ARCHIVE FEATURES THE VOICES OF THE BLACK WOMEN+ ARTISTS, MEMBERS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, AND COUNTLESS COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE SHAPED UBW'S GROUNDBREAKING FUSION OF AFRICAN DIASPORIC CULTURAL PRACTICES WITH MODERN DANCE AND AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS 40 YEARS. FROM JANUARY TO APRIL 2025, THE UBW ARCHIVE WAS FEATURED IN UBW'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION AT THE APOLLO, TITLED 'LEGACY, LINEAGE, AND LIBERATION: AN EXAMINATION OF URBAN BUSH WOMEN'S ART-MAKING AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PRAXIS.' THE EXHIBITION RECEIVED A ONE-MONTH EXTENSION AND FEATURED SPECIAL POP-UP PERFORMANCES BY UBW COMPANY MEMBERS. IT SHOWCASED RARE PHOTOGRAPHS, PERFORMANCE FOOTAGE, MANUSCRIPTS, COSTUMES, AND MEMORABILIA FROM ACROSS THE ENSEMBLE'S 40-YEAR HISTORY.

  Expenses $1,254,075 · Revenue $408,229

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

2024

Filed

14 August 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202632269349301513

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