Burlycon
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452050517
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2064789475
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,236
- Expenses
- $100,508
- Assets
- $70,964
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Danielle Barnett (Board President)
- Rebecca Beasley (Vice President)
- Dawn Crandell (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Danielle Barnett (Board President)
- Rebecca Beasley (Vice President)
- Chave Alexander (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
BurlyCon is a community-oriented, professional growth and educational organization for burlesque performers, fans, and aficionados. We conduct educational events to preserve, promote, and advance burlesque as a theatrical art form. We offer classes, workshops, panels, and other educational offerings that further professional skill and development. We are committed to supporting personal transformation through creative artistic expression in the burlesque arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, BurlyCon Annual Convention convened hundreds of artists, educators, and performers from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe in SeaTac, Washington, reinforcing its role as the premier professional development event for the burlesque arts community. The convention offered over 50 workshops and educational sessions spanning critical disciplines including business management, performance technique, media literacy, costume design and construction, and artistic development, equipping participants with the tools and knowledge to sustain viable careers in the performing arts. BurlyCon serves as a vital hub for an underserved segment of the arts community, providing access to professional training and peer mentorship that would otherwise be unavailable to independent artists and small performance companies. By bringing together leading practitioners and emerging talent under one roof, the convention fosters cross-cultural exchange, supports the preservation and evolution of a historic American art form, and strengthens the economic resilience of its participants. Beyond its educational impact, the 2025 convention generated meaningful economic benefit for the greater SeaTac and Seattle communities. Attendees traveling to Washington contributed directly to local hotel occupancy, airline revenue, ground transportation, dining, grocery, and retail spending throughout the convention period. This influx of out-of-area visitors provided a measurable boost to neighborhood businesses and service providers, demonstrating BurlyCon's role not only as a cultural institution but as a driver of local economic activity. The 2025 convention demonstrated the organization's continued commitment to accessibility, professional growth, and community building, directly advancing BurlyCon's mission to elevate burlesque as a legitimate and respected performing art.
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 94% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
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: 38%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.