Capoeiradc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331064033
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2403516639
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $330,116
- Expenses
- $301,624
- Assets
- $116,199
- Liabilities
- $924
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN ALSTON (PRESIDENT BORAD OF DIRECTORS)
- CARLOS PARADA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RENFORD POWELL (EXEC DIRECTOR & CONTRAMESTRE): $65,000 total reported compensation
- ALINA LIAO (BOARD MEMBER): $9,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teaching and performing afro-brazilian martial arts and culture to include dance, music and language.
What it reported doing in 2025
We had our second ever large-scale theater production at thearc, which was very well attended. This production showcased our multigenerational, multilevel community performing capoeira, afro-brazilian dance, and maculele, all with live percussion orchestra and singers. We received a special grant for our teen teachers in training program to include a first ever paid internship. We expanded this program to include 6 more youth - aged 14 through 20 years old. This will ensure sustainability of our teaching program while giving the youth leadership and life skills. The executive director and co-founder was awarded the title of mestre in a ceremony recognizing his achievements and excellence in teaching, playing an performing capoeira. There were 10 mestres present to test, witness and present the award and included 2 grand mestres as well as many members of the broader international community.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $263K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.