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Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812877900
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Desoto, TX, USA
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,005
Expenses
$38,721
Assets
$15,624

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Avery Jai Andrews (Executive Director)
  • Sonya Ewing Andrews (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Avery Jai Andrews (Executive Director)
  • Sonya Ewing Andrews (Board President)
  • Loreal Andrews Fontenette (Board Secretary)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Agora Artists is an arts service organization focused on providing programming and resources that contribute to a supportive ecosystem for dance in DFW. Through workshops forums and other creative assets Agora Artists aims to help individual dancers maintain an active and sustainable creative life.

What it reported doing in 2024

Seeds is a comprehensive project providing emerging and seasoned dancemakers with tools means and support to create develop and premiere a new finished work. This is a twelve-week crash course in self producing a choreographic work ready for future festival & venue showings. Seeds encompasses a subsidized rehearsal space career development consultations professional mentorship and numerous connections within the dance community culminating in a two-evening fully produced performance at Arts Mission Oak Cliff AMOC in Oak Cliff Dallas. The project is free of charge--no application fees no production fees and no rental costs will be charged to the applicant choreographer. Agora Artists also provides a modest budget to remunerate choreographers dancers and cover production expenses such as costumes props and travel reimbursements. This program served 35 artists and reached 170 audience members.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% 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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78

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: 24.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 63.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 63.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.