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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261576531
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Montrose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8186499336
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,092
- Expenses
- $44,435
- Assets
- $152,984
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- Dani Bowman (Arts Instructor)
- Patrick Eidemiller (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of DaniMation Entertainment is to advance animation education nationally by providing training curriculum and creative learning opportunities to autistic neurodiverse and underserved individuals empowering them with the artistic and technical skills needed to pursue careers and creative expression in the animation industry.
What it reported doing in 2025
DaniMation Entertainment has provided animation education to more than 240 students nationally through two primary delivery models. Over 110 students have received individualized one-on-one instruction offering personalized skill development in animation techniques digital tools and creative storytelling. An additional 130 students have participated in group arts classes building foundational animation skills in a collaborative learning environment. Program reach has expanded beyond California including a partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Rehabilitation connecting vocational rehabilitation clients with animation training as a pathway to employment and creative careers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 7
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.4%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.44; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.4% of revenue deployed · 13.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.