Floricanto Dance Theatre

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
953888975
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Pasadena, CA, USA
Phone
5623358552
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,451
Expenses
$170,615
Assets
$89,174
Liabilities
$138,834

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARY ROSE ORTEGA (President)

People named in this filing

  • FRANCISCO SANDOVAL (Secretary)
  • MARGIE HERNANDEZ (Board Member)
  • RICARDO ROSAS (Board Member)

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

Danza Floricanto/USA - founded in 1975 by Gema Sandoval. Danza Floricanto/USA is the oldest existing professional Mexican folk dance troupe in Los Angeles. As professional dancers, their purpose is to preserve Mexican culture, validate it as a cultural and artistic expression of the Latino people in the American Southwest, and create awareness and appreciation for it through live performance. From an Aztec ritual to the vibrant fiestas of today's Jalisco, from the Spanish-influenced tropics of Veracruz to the conflictive realties of the Chicano experience, Danza Florianto/USA presents the bold, colorful panorama of its Mexican heritage as it interacts with its American reality. This award-winning, 48 year old company has been enthusiastically received on tour throughout California and the American

What it reported doing in 2025

See Schedule O

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.56; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.