Baltimore Ballet Company Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522302465
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cockeysville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4106677974
- Rating
- 98
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,937
- Expenses
- $7,174
- Assets
- $8,910
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Cem Catbas (Chairman)
- Lucy Henningfield (Advisory Board)
- Kathy LoGrande (Advisory Board)
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
The mission of the Baltimore Ballet Company, Inc. (a non-profit ballet company affiliated with the Baltimore Ballet School, Inc.) is to enhance the cultural and artistic life of the city of Baltimore by offering a full season of professional ballet and dance performances using both professional dancers and world star guest artists (which is easily accessible and affordable to the public), also to provide a professional ballet company where dancers from Baltimore and Maryland can have an opportunity to make careers in-state, furthermore to engage in education and outreach programs to stimulate interest in ballet, classical music, and the arts in general. Baltimore Ballet strives to be a major contributor to the quality of life in Baltimore. Covid Pandemic brought everything to an unprecedented halt except for several virtual events and an Open House performance free to the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Two full length performances of the Nutcracker at Goucher College on December 13th and December 14th, 2025, and Tea with Clara. Professional performances with beautiful costumes, sets and world renown dancers at a low-ticket price of $20 to $35. The audience was approximately 1,200 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.