Hartford Dance Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833415925
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8604610795
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,769
- Expenses
- $115,944
- Assets
- $138,082
- Liabilities
- $115,944
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jillian Cusano (President)
People named in this filing
- Jillian Cusano (President)
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 primary objectives and purpose of the Hartford Dance Collective (The Dance Collective) is to provide performance opportunities in dance for female choreographers and to share professional contemporary dance with new audiences by curating performances in diverse locations. The Dance Collective will strive for excellence in providing: 1. Educational opportunities within the community (including public performances and open classes); 2. Performance and cultural training opportunities for dancers; and 3. Leadership opportunities for female choreographers to prepare them for a career in the dance field. These objectives and purposes are deliberately expressed in very general terms, so that they may provide useful and relevant guidance in the broadest possible range of circumstances
What it reported doing in 2024
The Art Bridges Foundation awarded the Hartford Dance Collective in collaboration with the New Britain Museum of American Art a grant to ignite the temporary exhibit "Modern Women: Visionary Artists". The activities included free dance class on Saturday mornings for 6 months, 5 pop-up style dance performances immersed in the galleries at the museum, and two final full-length dance performances featuring five brand new choreographies, created based on works from the exhibit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.3%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 31.1%; rating input score 31
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: 5.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.84; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 127.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.3% of revenue deployed · 31.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.