Dancemakers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
522256692
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Lanham, MD, USA
Phone
3017310003
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ballet

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,552,968
Expenses
$3,063,768
Assets
$656,476
Liabilities
$155,104

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBIN PITTS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • BERVERLY MEREDITH (PRESIDENT)
  • KIMBERLY SAVOY (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ROBIN PITTS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $73,007 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 makers, inc.s mission is to save and strengthen youth by promoting their mental and physical well-being while encouraging their creativity through the study of dance and other performing arts.

What it reported doing in 2025

Learn 24 program browne education campus & perry street: grant fund supported the smarts designed to keep children safe and to provide academic, recreational and other enrichment opportunities, such as tutoring, dance, art and other cultural events for children. It also provides life-long learning opportunities for community members. Smarts focuses on academic, enrichment, and social development after school and summer. The success of the smarts program has demonstrated the value of holistic arts programming that helps students in our region to grow artistically and academically. Among recent successes, dance makers is most proud of our efforts to continue providing the physical, social, and emotional benefits of access to the arts throughout the pandemic. We were able to remain open throughout, pivoting swiftly to virtual instruction, then to an in-person and virtual hybrid model.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 23
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.7%; rating input score 28
  • Program expense ratio: 23.1%; rating input score 23
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 27.7% of revenue deployed · 23.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $707K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.