Dash Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
880800745
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Phone
0000000000
Rating
54
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Amateur Sports

Reported finances

Revenue
$143,099
Expenses
$137,226
Assets
$5,873
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • David Cruikshank (President Founder)

People named in this filing

  • David Cruikshank (President Founder)
  • Mark Molenda (BOD)
  • Scott Polaski (BOD)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

What is the organizations primary exempt purpose The mission of DASH is to 1 promote youth literacy for healthier stronger communities 2 preserve and build upon Wisconsins iconic speedskating heritage 3 develop champions in their lives and on the ice by bringing talented athletes from diverse backgrounds into speedskating increase accessibility to the sport and then support that talent with comprehensive longitudinal development programming to extend skating careers

What it reported doing in 2025

LEGENDS SERIES DASH and Bonnie Blair 2nd year of legends series with Dan Jansen where DASH donates money for entry fees for participation prize money tee shirts or sweatshirts This is the only program of its kind in the United States where a Team donates their sponsor money to help kids from all over the country to lower the participation costs for families of speed skating Bonnie donates her own money as well as all of her time to help organize run and assist in all aspects of this program

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 21
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 20.6%; rating input score 21
  • Program expense ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 21

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -41.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 20.6% of revenue deployed · 21.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 21/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.