Empower Dance Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821726612
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9193583663
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,812
- Expenses
- $120,039
- Assets
- $58,514
- Liabilities
- $367
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA OXENDINE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PAMELA OXENDINE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SHARI HUBERT (CHAIR)
- DEBRA LEWIS (SECRETARY (THRU 3/25))
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
Support dance for children and youth
What it reported doing in 2025
Tuition scholarship program focused on supporting the development of young dancers, the program awarded 16 tuition scholarships to students for advanced training at empower school of movement, chosen for christ dance studio, and carolina ballet dance studio. These scholarships helped reduce financial barriers and ensured participants had access to high-quality dance education and professional training opportunities. Edf also sponsored the community's holiday event, which welcomed participation from more than 100 families who enjoyed performances presented by the dancers. In addition, edf organized a trip for participating youth to attend a performance of the nutcracker in raleigh by carolina ballet, where several scholarship recipients were performing. This experience exposed students to professional-level danceproductions while celebrating the accomplishments of local young artists.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 62
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: 1.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.3% of revenue deployed · 62.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.