Arga Nova Dance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752722413
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2148862321
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,121
- Expenses
- $138,808
- Assets
- $39,936
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Loris Anthony Beckles (Artistic Director)
- Dedra Brent (Managing Director)
- LaCentheah Bagley (Assistant Artistic 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Beckles Dancing Company advances the arts by providing professional dance performances, education, and outreach programs. The organization promotes African American cultural heritage and contemporary dance, offering high-quality performance experiences to the public, training and mentorship for emerging artists, and scholarships to support dancer development. Through concerts, community engagement, and dance instruction, BDC fosters artistic growth, cultural appreciation, and access to professional dance opportunities for diverse audiences and participants in the Dallas area and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
BDC presented professional dance performances highlighting African American cultural themes and original choreography, including Shades of Black (Feb 7, 2025), Dance Planet (Apr 6, 2025), and the 30th Anniversary Celebration (May 3031, 2025), serving approximately 840 audience members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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
MIXED - 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: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.5%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 27.2%; rating input score 27
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 91% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.5% of revenue deployed · 27.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.