Dance NOW! Miami

Legal name: Dance Now Ensemble Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
651005951
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
Miami, FL, US
Phone
305.975.8489
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$400,222
Expenses
$377,457
Assets
$6,078
Liabilities
$41,977

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELIZABETH CAMARGO (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • HANNAH BAUMGARTEN (DIRECTOR)
  • ELIZABETH CAMARGO (PRESIDENT)
  • SANDRA CURBELO (DIR & SECRET)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dance NOW! Miami's mission is to create, promote and produce contemporary dance of the highest caliber, and through performance, arts education, community leadership and innovative programming, nurture new talents, foster artistic collaborations and make the art of dance accessible to diverse audiences locally, nationally and internationally. Dance NOW!’s educational mission is to provide multi-faceted training and pathways to higher education, professional opportunities and inclusion for Miami’s economically, culturally, socially and geographically diverse population.

What it reported doing in 2024

Part iii line 28 program service accomplishments dance now miami, the premiere contemporary dance company in Florida was founded in 2000 by artistic directors hannah baumgarten and diego salterini. The artistic work of the company is based in their two-decade long investigation and fusion of ballet, modern and jazz dance styles, now recognized around the world as contemporary dance. The company serves as a model for collaboration and entrepreneurship headed by two individuals from different continents who intersected and made miami their home, creating an organization that now leads the south Florida dance community. Dance now's diverse repertory has been met with accolades in fifteen states and on three continent, from brazil to mexico, honduras to italy, while the company maintains a commitment to present a full season of dance in south Florida. Dance now miami's major annual projects include presenting original work from the artistic directors, created individually and collaboratively masterpiece in motion honoring the rich legacy of dance through the reconstruction of historic works of ballet and modern dance from the 20th and 21st centuries. From isadora duncan to gerald arpino, jose limon and doris humphrey the ekphrasis project, bringing together different art forms with unique, impressive, site-specific performances in museums, galleries, and architectural sites the daniel lewis dance sample, celebrating Florida's established companies and choreographers in an annual fall showcase and new voices, featuring emerging choreographers from the national arena and exposing Florida audiences to the newest trends in contemporary dance. Dance now is passionate about arts education and has reached over 30,000 children in south Florida alone through its in-school residences, the world dance summer intensive, and educational performances throughout the community and from its home at the little cultural complex, and the dance now youth ensemble, founded2019, in collaboration with miami arts charter dance department, provides performance, mentoring and scholarship opportunities to some of the regions most talented students. Snm is a beacon of homegrown, world-class art - a brand that is honored, presented, and recognized nationally and internationally. During the covid-19 crisis, dance now led the dance community with the release of the covdeos, a series of dance video shorts, relevant to the moment and providing new content for its audiences while continuing its artistic mission.

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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. 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: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.9%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 64.5%; rating input score 65
  • Fundraising efficiency: $149.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.91; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 60.9% of revenue deployed · 64.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $244K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.