Guiding Mountain Dragon & Lion Dance Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
920311926
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Broomfield, CO, USA
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$129,223
Expenses
$96,101
Assets
$116,934

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gina Lafferty (President)
  • Kevin Bui (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Gina Lafferty (President)
  • Kevin Bui (Vice President)
  • Emily Tran (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

Guiding Mountain Dragon & Lion Dance Association is a registered 501c3 non-profit dedicated to sharing the cultural art and sport of Dragon & Lion Dancing. As an organization the group is focused on providing a collaborative and welcoming space for members of the community to learn about and connect with the culture beauty and history of Dragon and Lion Dancing. Guiding Mountains goal? To bring joy empower youth and strengthen community through the cultural arts. All of our coaches members performers and officers are volunteers and finances from performances and events go directly back into the organization to support our ability to offer FREE training to our members. Our belief is that there should be no financial barriers to youth being able to learn about and participate in their culture or broaden their cultural knowledge.

What it reported doing in 2025

Presented 18 educational presentations throughout the state of Colorado educating the community on the importance cultural significance and history of Dragon and Lion dance. Gave AANHPI youth the opportunities to learn about and develop presentation leadership skills to connect with their communities in meaningful ways. Reached over 8,000 individuals through these presentations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 25.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $190K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.