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Annual Student Dance Showcase & Festival Participation

01 Annual Student Dance Showcase & Festival Participation · 13 edit slice
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orgs
13
activities
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strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 6 organizations and 13 activities — Ballet Yuma, BALLET ETUDES, BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION, The Ballet Alliance and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (83%) and California (17%). The field's most common shared approach is "Transparent Procurement", run by 1 orgs.
Ballet Yuma and BALLET ETUDES 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 83% · 5 orgs
California 17% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 83% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 6

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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.

Alison and Michael Mauzé 1
Individuals
Alison and Michael Mauzé, John and Amy Palmer, Jeremy and Dr. Heather Irina Rishel, Larissa Roesch, Luisa Fernanda Espinosa, Jeri Lynn Johnson, Jane Dunlevie and Marten Abrahamsen, Leah Solivan and Michael Breyer, Sally Yu and Jeff Shen 1
Corporate
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
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) 1
Corporate
Jeremy and Dr. Heather Irina Rishel 1
Individuals
John and Amy Palmer 1
Individuals
Larissa Roesch 1
Individuals
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
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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.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Partner
shared by 2 orgs
The Phoenix Symphony Partner
shared by 2 orgs
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
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 Gives Day Partner
shared by 1 org
Arts in Mesa Partner
shared by 1 org
Aszure Barton Partner
shared by 1 org
Ballet Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
Ballet Arizona Network
shared by 1 org
Ballet Magnificat 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 Yuma AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 BALLET ETUDES AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 BALLET ARTS FOUNDATION AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 The Ballet Alliance AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  5. #05 SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION CA · 1 · 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.

204
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs