Dance Service New York City Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460830780
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2012
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2129664452
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Council/Agency

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,967,162
Expenses
$2,151,144
Assets
$2,644,695
Liabilities
$394,496

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CANDACE THOMPSON-ZACHERY (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • SARA ROER (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • VICKI CAPOTE (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • VICKI CAPOTE (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $115,996 total reported compensation
  • SARA ROER (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $108,826 total reported compensation
  • CANDACE THOMPSON-ZACHERY (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $108,469 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 service New York city, inc.'s mission is to champion the New York city metropolitan area dance sector by fostering a more just, equitable, and inclusive landscape where dance workers and organizations can thrive. Rooted in research, dance/nyc engages in advocacy, regranting, and knowledge-sharing that works toward establishing dance as a valued form of cultural expression and a common good.

What it reported doing in 2024

Advocacydance/nyc advocates on behalf of the dance sector by regularly representing its interests to the city, state, and federal government and to the philanthropic community. Using its research as a tool for change and rooted in its organizational values of justice, equity, and inclusion, dance/nyc drives policy, disseminates resources, provides self-advocacy tools, and informs investment and program development. Dance/nyc furthered its advocacy work via ongoing engagement in legislative and public representation of the dance workforce to the city, state, and federal governments as well as the regular dissemination of newsletters and tools for self-advocacy and civic education on its advocacy page(https://bit.ly/dancenyc_advocacy) and dwr hub (https://hub.dance.nyc/). The organization's efforts included the continuation of field-wide calls to help educate, deliver resources, instigate dialogue, and foster peer learning and collective action around timely initiatives, tools, and resources; in addition to its ongoing partnership with community members, peer organizations, and field leaders to best serve the changing needs of dance workers, artists, organizations, and businesses to ensure that dance thrives in the metropolitan nyc area.idea programin 2024, dance/nyc implemented the interdisciplinary disability education and access program - a 14-session initiative designed to educate non-disabled dance makers on disability culture and access, led by disabled artists and facilitators. The program expanded leadership and employment opportunities for disabled artists while equipping participants to create more inclusive and accessible practices within the dance field. Through these and other initiatives, dance/nyc strengthens the ecosystem for dance and ensures equitable access to resources, education, and artistic participation across New York city.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 89
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 94.8%; rating input score 95; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 81.2%; rating input score 81; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 27 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 23 filed related-organization links
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.