DanceSafe Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943365608
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Lakewood, CO, USA
Phone
8886362411
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,964,321
Expenses
$3,973,881
Assets
$1,619,991
Liabilities
$226,631

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Monique Chavez (President)
  • Mikayla Hellwich (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Kristin Karas (COO): $112,669 total reported compensation
  • Jessica Breemen Chief GIO (Director): $107,670 total reported compensation
  • Mitchell Gomez (Executive Dir.): $107,264 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To support non-addicted recreational drug users & their communities in making informed decisions about their health & safety. DanceSafe has 2 fundamental operating principles: Harm reduction & peer-based, popular education,

What it reported doing in 2024

Outreach: Volunteers provide field outreach at concerts, music festivals, conferences and other music, art and community events. Our initiatives and services include: Providing safe spaces to engage in conversations about health, drug use, and personal safety. Providing fee water and electrolytes to prevent dehydration and heatstroke Providing free safe sex and consent tools to avoid unwanted pregnancies and the spread of STI's Providing free ear plugs and literature about hearing protection to help prevent hearing loss and tinnitus. Providing honest, fact-based and unbiased information on drug effects and potential risks to empower people to make informed decisions Offering non-judgemental first-point of contact to risky and challenging situations. Offering drug checking services to prevent adverse medical incidents and overdose deaths working with promoters to advocate for safety-first approaches.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 9 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $856K reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.