about our foundation

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As a nonprofit  organization, the Grace Baca Foundation is dedicated to empowering dancers of all ages and backgrounds. Our mission is centered on providing resources, opportunities, and encouragement to aspiring dancers, enabling them to pursue their passion and achieve their full potential. Our foundation has provided more than $10,000.00 worth of scholarships within the first two years. Our goal is to provide access to the art of dance to children of all ages and abilities at the studio of their choice.

In just 2.5 years, the Grace Baca Foundation has given over $7,000 directly to patients, families, and organizations such as the Brain Injury Alliance—supporting those impacted by Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and honoring the lives forever changed.

Unintentional injuries—especially from motor vehicle accidents—are the leading cause of death in children. Among these, TBIs are the most likely to result in death or lifelong disability. It is our mission to bring light to this silent epidemic.

We are committed to supporting adolescent TBI survivors and grieving families, while fiercely advocating for accountability and change. Tragically, the man responsible for the accident that took Gracie’s life—despite a lengthy criminal record—was only charged with a misdemeanor and served just 30 days in jail. Even more devastating, while awaiting trial for Gracie’s death, he was arrested again for driving under the influence.

This cannot be acceptable.

We must do better. For our children. For our communities.

Join us in raising awareness, pushing for policy reform, and educating others about the realities of TBIs. Let’s keep repeat offenders off the road and build a future where fewer families suffer this kind of loss.

Dance stimulates our sensory systems by helping to rebuild the pathways between cognition and motor skills, this is promising news in terms of what dance might offer to rehabilitate a brain's ability to move functions from a damaged area of the brain to an undamaged area.  Research has shown that there has been a considerable acceleration in the rehabilitation process in a chronic condition of an extremely severe TBI after the goal-directed applied dance rehab intervention.