Danceaspen

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862924498
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Aspen, CO, USA
Phone
4158467291
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,073,338
Expenses
$937,275
Assets
$1,723,130
Liabilities
$121,662

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GAIL WEINGLASS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAUREL WINTON (EXEC/ARTISTI): $101,532 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Danceaspen advances contemporary dance through performance, creation, and education. We bring artists and communities together through bold choreography, meaningful collaboration, and transformative experiences on stage, in schools, and across communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, danceaspen expanded its artistic, educational, and community impact through a dynamic season of performance, new creation, and outreach. The company presented seven public performances and multiple special events, reaching more than 3,200 audience members across Colorado and Wyoming. The season included two mainstage productions at the wheeler opera house-ember glow and shifting forms-as well as appearances at tacaw, the vail dance festival, and touring engagements in fort collins, crested butte, rifle, and gillette. Danceaspen commissioned and premiered 11 new works by company artists and nationally recognized choreographers, including princess grace award recipients and leading contemporary dance makers. Through dancestart and other educational initiatives, the organization served more than 1,200 students, teachers, seniors, and individuals with special needs across the roaring fork valley and beyond. Community outreach programs, free performances, masterclasses, demonstrations, and partnerships with organizations including the aspen art museum, hotel jerome, pitkin county senior center, best buddies, aspen music festival, and tacaw engaged more than 900 participants. Danceaspen further advanced access to the arts by providing more than 1,100 free tickets and performance experiences, reinforcing its commitment to making world-class contemporary dance accessible to diverse audiences throughout the region.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 72% 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

STRONG - 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: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 36.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.9% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $726K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 8 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.