Dance Teachers United Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
640820633
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Brandon, MS, USA
Phone
6015400379
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Parent/Teacher Group

Reported finances

Revenue
$223,054
Expenses
$189,937
Assets
$128,876
Liabilities
$291

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BLAKE COHELEY (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BLAKE COHELEY (PRESIDENT): $4,850 total reported compensation
  • ASHLEY FULLER (COMPETITION DIRECTOR): $2,500 total reported compensation
  • SHEY CAMPBELL (TREASURER): $2,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dance teachers united will strive to enhance and enable the status of dance professionals by maintaining a dignity of manner in behavior and preservation for teaching and dance services. Dance teachers united will observe the highest standards in the field of the art of dance. Dance teachers united will engage in only the highest form of teaching and dance services to bring prestige to the profession of dance. Every effort shall be made for the general standard in the art of the dance.

What it reported doing in 2025

Dtu proudly serves the dance community by enriching the lives of not only our members but also our young dancers. The environment is friendly and promotes growth on state but also in the studio by offering a competition of excellence. Dtu dancers can showcase their hard work for a panel of highly qualified judges for critique and placement awards. In the workshop dtu enriches the dance curriculum by offering classes in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, lyrical and musical theater. The combinations are taught alongside with a strong technical foundation. Master teachers or guest teaching artists are brought in from all over the world to share the love of the art of dance but also to inspire dancers at any level in their training. One of the founding principles of dtu is that all dancers must register and take part in the convention in order to compete. Each year dtu has hundreds of dancers participate.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $182K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.