Gugulethu Ballet Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814385295
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Woodside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4153704747
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,667
- Expenses
- $94,884
- Assets
- $73,866
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTINE ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KRISTINE ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT)
- ALLI FOLK (DIRECTOR)
- JEFFREY EGEBERG (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of gugulethu ballet project is to bring the art of classical ballet to the children and youth of south african townships. Through the study of ballet, including contemporary forms built upon classical foundations, program participants learn personal discipline, respect for themselves and others, artistic expression and focus.
What it reported doing in 2024
Gugulethu ballet project currently supports two dance schools in south africa: dancescape in zolani township in western cape and igugu-lethu arts and leadership project in gugulethu township. These are schools which gugulethu ballet project visits every year and has a long standing working history. Each summer, gugulethu ballet project brings promising young dancers from our partner schools in south africa to spend several weeks in the united states studing intensively at one or more prestigious dance schools in California and New York, among them alonzo king lines dance center, odc dance commons, san francisco ballet school, academy of ballet san francisco, the new ballet school, the ailey school, american ballet theatre, kaatsbaan international dance center, and zohar school of dance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.3%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 39
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: 24.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.3% of revenue deployed · 38.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.