Dance Canvas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262425825
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4043847140
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $215,383
- Expenses
- $228,331
- Assets
- $246,619
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hila Roberts (Board President)
Highest reported compensation
- Angela Harris (Executive Artistic Director): $52,060 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dance Canvas' mission is to provide opportunities and venues to increase the awareness of professional dance in the southeast. We achieve our mission through three program areas of service career development, youth outreach and audience engagement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Dance Canvas youth programs: DC NEXT (a 4-week program designed to teach 25-30 students about the professional career of dance. The teens produce their own production, and work with choreographers from across the country. Students learn how to set goals, negotiate their future career plans, and identify the challenges and barriers to success.); Outreach: (City of Atlanta Centers of Hope, after school year long program for ages 5-12 yrs, in partnership with the City of Atlanta's Department of Recreation). Total outreach participants: 200-400 kids ages 5-18 yrs. We also provide workshops, lectures and master classes to Atlanta area middle and high schools throughout the year. We also provide field trip options for middle and high schools to attend our professional performances.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 25th 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.