Divine Dance Institute
Legal name: Divine Dance Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522110175
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- (301) 219-2000
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $308,372
- Expenses
- $314,497
- Assets
- $3,993
- Liabilities
- $215,819
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA STANDARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KEISHA STEVENS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMANDA STANDARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $11,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To cultivate an environment conductive to the arts education and academic enrichment that prepares for bridging the gap between the ttrained performing arts and the community of faith.
Divine Dance Institute Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing dance education and performance opportunities. The institute serves its community by offering classes and programs that foster artistic expression and personal growth through dance. It operates primarily in the United States, focusing on making dance accessible to a wide range of participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 54.05; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $229K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.