This is Dance Data Project's®  first-ever Ballet School Leadership Data Byte, which examines the gender distribution of leadership within ballet schools affiliated with the Largest 150 Ballet & Classically Based Companies.

The 2025 Revenue Data Byte marks DDP’s first in-depth analysis of nonprofit revenue structures, utilizing IRS Form 990 data from FY2019 to FY2024 to examine how the Largest 150 U.S. ballet and classically based professional companies earn income. Understanding how nonprofit ballet companies generate and structure their revenue sheds light on how these companies maintain sustainability and ultimately reveal greater insight into the ballet industry’s overall operation. The Largest 150 companies are ranked in descending order based on the size of their annual revenue for FY2023 and are divided into three categories: the Largest 50 (#1-50), the Next 50 (#51-100), and the Additional 50 (#101-150) companies for further analysis.

DDP's first report to analyze dancer counts for the Largest 150 U.S. Ballet and Classically Based Companies ranked by FY 2023 expenditure.

This is Dance Data Project® (DDP)’s seventh annual study examining the gender distribution of leadership at ballet and classically based companies in the United States. This is DDP’s fourth iteration of the report examining the Largest 150 companies. This report analyzes the gender distribution of Artistic, Executive, and Associate/Assistant Directors, and for the third year, includes Heads of Schools, Heads of Second Companies, and Rehearsal Directors. DDP continues to expand our analysis of leadership positions within ballet, and, for the first time, the gender distribution of music directors and conductors among the Largest 150 companies is examined.