Alison Cook Beatty Dance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821538627
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9174097773
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,010
- Expenses
- $95,589
- Assets
- $11,341
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ellen Beatty (Vice President and Director)
- Alison Cook-Beatty (President and Artistic Director, Director)
People named in this filing
- Kenneth Wang (Director)
- Jennifer DeLeonardo (Treasurer and Director)
- Ellen Beatty (Vice President and Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dance company based in New York City. Founded in 2012, the company is a classically-based modern dance company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally-driven movement grounded in American modern dance while exploring new approaches to finding unique creative expression. The healing and transformational power of the arts inspire the company to work with diverse groups within the community and collaborate with other artists across multiple disciplines.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Buckman Performing Arts Center, Memphis' most intimate venue, with a mission to present the highest quality performing and visual arts., presented Alison Cook Beatty Dance in January 2025. The company performed a full evening program of pieces Joyful Offering, Central Park Field #4, Echoes of War and Lifeline, followed by a Q&A. This performance was featured in the Daily Memphian as well as News Channel 3, the latter quoting: ...world-class dancers enmeshes classically-based modern technique with elements of contemporary movement. ACBD is celebrated for exploring the universal human condition with poignant and expressive choreography. Anchored in elements of ballet, ACBD travels the country with uplifting performances and inspiring outreach. The company also taught a masterclass at the University of Memphis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 38.7%; rating input score 39
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 38.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.