Friends of Argentine Tango Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463808661
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9174967547
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,440
- Expenses
- $129,973
- Assets
- $56,231
- Liabilities
- $16,465
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Etttenheim (President)
People named in this filing
- Susan Etttenheim (President)
- Ruth Epstein (Co-Treasurer)
- Jennifer Lin (Co-Treasurer)
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
Friends of Argentine Tango provides instruction and performances of Tango and other Latin dance forms. Our goal is to bring the joys and benefits of these dance forms to the body, mind, and spirit across New York City. Our programs encourage movement, connection, self-expression, body awareness, and inclusion.
What it reported doing in 2025
Adapted Argentine Tango as a therapeutic intervention for cancer survivors facing chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. The dance-based program aims to improve balance, sensation, and neural function, with studies showing it can rewire brain-body connections and reduce fall risks. via The Ohio State University
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% 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
STRONG - 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: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
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: 1.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.