Discalced Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133577394
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
7186248400
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,272,216
Expenses
$9,423,583
Assets
$18,826,625
Liabilities
$1,466,364

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

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NANCY UMANOFF (DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARK MORRIS (DIRECTOR, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $329,042 total reported compensation
  • NANCY UMANOFF (DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $237,242 total reported compensation
  • ELIZABETH FOX (TREASURER/CFO): $213,140 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 develop, promote and sustain dance, music and opera productions by mark morris, and to serve as a cultural resource to engage and enrich the community.mmdg performs mark morris original works on tour in venues both across the u.s. And internationally. Mmdg also offers several programs that provide dance and music classes to its neighbors in brooklyn and in cities on tour. Mmdg leads weekly dance classes for seniors and young people living in local public housing, conducts long-term residencies in brooklyn public schools, provides customized dance workshops for people with parkinson's disease, and shares its beautiful rehearsal studio with hundreds of other dance companies.

What it reported doing in 2024

The mark morris dance center, a national model for inclusive arts education, wellness, and community engagement, will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2026-27 while continuing to serve nearly 6,000 visitors each week. Advancing the mark morris dance group's core value of access, the dance center removes financial barriers for participants in its 180 weekly classes with live music for all ages and abilities. This includes robust tuition assistance for youth, including a commitment to providing full need-based scholarships and a tiered tuition system of financial aid designed to make high-quality dance education available to all families-regardless of income. During the year fy25 $186,690 of program fees were reduced representing 70% of all students receiving financial aid. Subsidy initiatives for adult dancers of all levels, from beginner to professional; and free healthy aging classes designed to support the physical, emotional, and social well-being of older adults. All classes are inclusive, welcoming disabled and non-disabled students alike, with instruction designed for a wide range of abilities and accommodations provided as needed. Together, these programs ensure that high-quality dance education remains accessible while sustaining employment for approximately 170 teaching artists, assistant teaching artists, and accompanists in addition to administrative and facilities professionals. The dance center also serves as a vital resource for the broader dance and music ecosystem through its artist services: the mark morris dance accompaniment training program, which prepares advanced and professional musicians to accompany dance classes across genres and will be further strengthened in fy27 through the leadership of the dance center music director; and the subsidized rehearsal space program, which provides deeply discounted studio rentals for hundreds of choreographers each year, supporting more than 5,000 instances of artists working in the studio annually.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 59.1%; rating input score 59; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -1.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $329K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $335K reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.