Dance Alive Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237348157
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3523712986
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,512,284
- Expenses
- $1,223,107
- Assets
- $5,176,422
- Liabilities
- $776,426
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tim Cannon (Vice President)
- Susan Scanella (Executive Director)
- Lorie Gleim (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Tim Cannon (Vice President): $35,000 total reported compensation
- Kim Tuttle (Executive VP OperationArtistic Dir): $20,833 total reported compensation
- Susan Scanella (Executive Director): $12,313 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dance Alive, Inc., aspires to enrich humanity by sustaining a professional ballet company of the highest caliber which strives for excellence in the fields of artistic creativity, performance, education and community leadership.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ballet Programs: Outreach - DANCIN is a program that provides children ages 8-17 the opportunity to perform in venues such as arts festivals, retirement facilities and schools. DANCE PARTNERS is a program designed to bring at-risk or disadvantaged persons to Mainstage productions. Working with United Way and the Florida Department of Children and Families, over 1,500 individuals were able to enjoy ballet performances at no cost. DISCOVERING DANCE, The Mainstage Experience provides mainstage and school performances to over 3,500 school-age children from Alachua and surrounding counties. SENIOR MOMENTS provides life-long learning activities for seniors, through lectures, demonstrations, seminars and performances at three senior facilities in Gainesville, Florida. LETS DANCE is an instructional program for children with mental and physical disabilities. Dance Alive National Ballet has partnered with the Childrens Trust of Alachua County, Florida State Department of Arts and Culture, and the City of Gainesville.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.5%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $50.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 65.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.23; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.5% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 21 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.