Dynamic Forms Inc Dba Mark Degarmo Dance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133440226
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2123759214
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$328,351
Expenses
$380,282
Assets
$707,165
Liabilities
$14,998

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHLEEN KHEEL (PRESIDENT)
  • LAWRENCE P HOLODAK (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARK B DEGARMO (FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE & ARTISTIC DIRECT): $182,885 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educate historically under-resourced and marginalized NYC Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Latine, Mulitracial and Other communities and especially children; create, perform, and disseminate original artistic and scholarly work; and build intercultural community through dance arts.

What it reported doing in 2024

Dance Education Program - 621 students, teachers, and administrators served directly through in-person instruction with schools with 2,797 total students & 252 total teachers and staff. The program served 27,763 individuals directly and indirectly. These programs used learning standards and NYC Department of Education ("DOE") Dance Blueprint to design sequential, interdisciplinary curricula integrating dance skills, improvisation, composition, performance, the school curricula, and dance journal writing. 1) "Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity" served 9 NYC Title I elementary public schools in 10 programs, 9 during the school day & 1 after school in 3 of NYC's 5 boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, & Manhattan. Schools included: Bronx: P.S. 85-Great Expectations School, Fordham; P.S. 531-Archer Street Elementary School, Parkchester; & P.S. 595-Colibri Community School, West Farms/Tremont. Brooklyn: P.S. 3-Bedford Village School, Bedford-Stuyvesant; P.S. 158 Warwick Community School, East New York; P.S. 161 The Crown School, Crown Heights; & P.S. 273 Wortman School, East New York. Manhattan: P.S. 15-Roberto Clemente School, East Village/Lower East Side & P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman Learning Center, Harlem. We conducted 1 after school program with P.S. 15. We worked directly with administrators, teachers, students, educational paraprofessionals, staff, parents and family members. Additionally, our Professional Learning Program (PLP) provided 30 hours of training: 10 hours each of seminars, methods, and project-based learning. It served 7 MDD professionals: 4 teaching artists, 1 education program staff, 1 development staff, and 1 executive. Themes included evidence-based in-person teaching and learning, assessment & evaluation, NYC public school partnership programs to sustain multi-year programs, and restorative justice. PLP occurred across our 9 partnering schools, MDD Studio Theater 310 at The Clemente Center, via Zoom, and St. Mary's Church.

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 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 80
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd 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: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $292K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $183K · 7 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.