Ananya Dance Theatre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204261878
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6516503564
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $688,840
- Expenses
- $582,578
- Assets
- $1,652,942
- Liabilities
- $137,152
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- SHERIE APUNGU (DIRECTOR)
- DIVYA KARAN (DIRECTOR)
- CHRISTINE KING (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ananya dance theater is an ensemble company of bipoc women and femme professional dance artists. We create original contemporary dance theater at the intersection of artistic excellence and social justice. We work to dismantle hierarchies and build liberation, inspired by the lives and dreams of bipoc women and femmes around the globe. We will celebrate our 20th season in 2025. Our artistry unfolds through yorchha, our devised contemporary feminist dance form, which embodies our response to the western/euro-american movement practices that dominate the contemporary dance world. Yorchha proudly claims the descriptors "contemporary- and "innovative" even as it celebrates its creation from an intentional deconstruction and reassembly of traditional odissi, vinyasa yoga, and the martial art chhau. While yorchha is rooted in principles of south asian movement forms, we shape its expression to move beyond an affiliation with "indian culture" that offers constrictive understandings of "hindu"
What it reported doing in 2024
Ananya dance theatre maintained a marketing presence at the 2024 apap conference in New York city, and also participated in the inaugural frogtown arts fest (a neighborhood festival in st. Paul, Minnesota). Artistic director ananya chatterjea taught, spoke at, and attended several professional conferences: the 34th annual international conference and festival of blacks in dance (feb 2024); artistic associate kealoha ferreira attended the 13th festival of pacific arts and culture - Hawaii in june 2024, and served on the organizing committee for the 2025 dance/USA conference. Adt conducted a choreography laboratory for emerging contemporary choreographers, launched a new logo and new website (including a public launch event attended by 50 people), launched a first-ever crm database of constituents, stored costumes and set pieces from past productions at an off-site facility, and maintained a physical facility beyond the requirements of specific program projects, management, and fundraising.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.84; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $448K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.