Los Angeles, CA

CONTRA-TIEMPO

EIN 20-5477825

Arts, Culture & Heritage Performing Arts

Mission

Contra-tiempo is a bold and multilingual Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company, dedicated to transforming the world through dance—building community, facilitating dialogue, and moving audiences to imagine what is possible.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About CONTRA-TIEMPO

CONTRA-TIEMPO is an activist dance-theater company based in Los Angeles that creates physically intense, multilingual performance work grounded in community engagement, movement education, and social justice. The organization explicitly positions dance as a vehicle for civic dialogue, healing, and cultural representation. The organization’s Tax ID/EIN (20-5477825) is publicly listed on its site and corresponds with federal nonprofit records. In recent years CONTRA-TIEMPO has maintained an active season of touring repertory (including works such as joyUS justUS and ¡azúcar!), expanded school residencies and teacher-training programs across Los Angeles-area schools, and mounted community-facing activities and emergency-response resource efforts for impacted neighborhoods.

Notable achievements

Nationally commissioned, touring productions

CONTRA-TIEMPO developed and toured evening-length works (notably joyUS justUS and ¡azúcar!) that were commissioned and presented by regional and national presenters; these productions combine professional company casts with local community participants and site-specific engagement.

Expanded arts education and residencies

The organization significantly grew its education offerings in the last several years—scaling school residency and teacher-training programs across dozens of Los Angeles schools and regularly engaging community casts and youth participants in its work.

Fiscal growth and reinvestment

CONTRA-TIEMPO recorded a notable increase in organizational scale in recent filings (surpassing $1M in reported revenue in its most recent fiscal reporting) and states a policy of directing donations to artists, community engagement, and arts-education programs.

At a glance

Total assets: $486K
Annual revenue: $1.0M
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 20-5477825
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Website: www.contra-tiempo.org
On Mahalo since: April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Supported and commissioned by major arts funders and institutions, including foundations and public arts agencies (examples cited by the organization include the James Irvine Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation/DanceUSA, New England Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, and Los Angeles County Arts Commission).

Featured by national and regional arts presenters and press outlets for its community-centered, activist approach to dance-theater (coverage and presenter listings include regional presenters and arts publications).

Listed on Charity Navigator with a published organizational profile and an accountability & finance score reported by that evaluator.

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