Berkeley Folk Dancers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942931871
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Berkeley, CA, USA
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$92,722
Expenses
$68,204
Assets
$144,451
Liabilities
$780

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • William Bauer (President CEO)
  • Neil Collier (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • William Bauer (President CEO)
  • Renee Marchese (Treasurer)
  • Chris Johnston (Secretary)

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

To promote folk dancing recreation through teaching and practice Monday-Thursday evenings Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. On Friday evenings we have request dancing for recreation and practice of folk dancing. We have 168 members.

What it reported doing in 2025

Reimbursements offered to our teachers for attending seminars and workshop to expand their repertoires and acquire teaching skills from master teachers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.