Design Dance Company

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831200486
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Traverse City, MI, USA
Phone
2312524403
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,933
Expenses
$65,346
Assets
$6,846
Liabilities
$703

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LISA HAWKINS GEORGE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • VERONICA L WURM (CODIRECTOR)
  • MADELAINE GLOWICKI (SECRETARY/CO)
  • LISA HAWKINS GEORGE (PRESIDENT)

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

Art and performance education

What it reported doing in 2025

Empowering young artists through extensive art and performance education. 35 students enrolled for the calendar year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.1%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.