General Mischief Dance Theatre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263551911
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127144694
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,666
- Expenses
- $73,284
- Assets
- $37,462
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mia DiChiaro (President)
People named in this filing
- Mia DiChiaro (President)
- Emily Smyth Vartanian (Artistic Director)
- Mark Baker (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
Creating theatrical dance works which (i) engage audiences emotionally, socially and kinesthetically, (ii) include both aerial work and earthbound forms of movement and (iii) provide opportunities for the general public to celebrate their own expression through dance.
What it reported doing in 2025
The company choreographed, rehearsed, and performed four full dance shows and as guests at two community events for the general public, with a seventh performance that was prepared but had to be canceled due to weather. Altogether, we performed for an estimated 650 audience members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.