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Pre-Professional Ballet Training

01 Pre-Professional Ballet Training · 32 edit slice
8
orgs
32
activities
1
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 8 organizations and 32 activities — BALLET ETUDES, BALLET ARIZONA, THE COLBURN SCHOOL, SOUTHWEST YOUTH BALLET THEATRE and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (88%) and California (13%). The field's most common shared approach is "Transparent Procurement", run by 1 orgs.
BALLET ETUDES and BALLET ARIZONA hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 88% · 7 orgs
California 13% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 88% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 8

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Arizona Commission on the Arts 1
Government
Arizona Community Foundation – Yuma 1
Foundation
Bordertown Arts Project 1
Corporate
Connie Hillman Family Foundation 1
Foundation
ENCORE! donors 1
Individuals
Foundation and Corporate Giving 1
Government
Prima Circle 1
Individuals
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Transparent Procurement
3
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Ballet Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Pacific Northwest Ballet Partner
shared by 2 orgs
The Phoenix Symphony Partner
shared by 2 orgs
520 Dance Collective Partner
shared by 1 org
ABC7 Partner
shared by 1 org
Alan Hineline Partner
shared by 1 org
Alliant Insurance – Randy Reyes Funder
shared by 1 org
Amelia Gandara Funder
shared by 1 org
American Ballet Theatre Partner
shared by 1 org
American Viola Society Partner
shared by 1 org
Ana Marie Snyder Funder
shared by 1 org
Ariane Guthrie Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Commission on the Arts Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation of Yuma Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Dance Coalition Network
shared by 1 org
Arizona Gives Day Partner
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 BALLET ETUDES AZ · 9 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 BALLET ARIZONA AZ · 6 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 THE COLBURN SCHOOL CA · 6 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 SOUTHWEST YOUTH BALLET THEATRE INC AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  5. #05 Ballet Yuma AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

351
Staff
from 2 orgs
202
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs