Dancers Group

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942879185
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4159209181
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,347,307
Expenses
$5,824,359
Assets
$6,097,034
Liabilities
$4,701,120

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WAYNE HAZZARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • RASIKA KUMAR (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • WAYNE HAZZARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $139,234 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Dancers group promotes the visibility and viability of dance and serves artists, the dance community and audiences via programs and services that are as collaborative and innovative as the creative process itself. We lead as both a service organization and a presenter of performance opportunities. This hybrid engagement maximizes our impact in san francisco and beyond and supports a vision of the regions dance community as diverse, resilient, resourced and artistically vibrant.

What it reported doing in 2024

Artist services - artist services included the ca$h dance regranting program that awarded $100,000 in grants to 10 individual artists and 10 organizations ($5,000 each). These grants supported a diverse roster of artists, highlighting dance forms such as african and african diasporic, aerial/vertical, acrobatic, bharatanatyam, classical chinese, contemporary ballet, freestyle, improvisation, jazz funk, kathak, street styles, and more. Bay area dance week returned in 2024 for its 24th year. From april 26 to may 5, the 10-day festival offered the public the opportunity to experience the region's vibrant and diverse dance scene, completely free of charge. The 2024 festival featured 179 free events, including performances, classes, workshops, open rehearsals, and more. Total attendance was 16,518. Onsite is a program of free, large-scale, site-specific dance in san francisco. On may 9th, 10th, and 12th, dancers' group presented a 3-day artistic intervention at san francisco city hall. Free attendance totaled 1,893 for the performances.

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 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: $131.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -34%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $139K · 5 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.