Heart of Dance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473089587
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Newport, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512836799
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,790
- Expenses
- $59,200
- Assets
- $36,231
- Liabilities
- $613
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrea Mirenda (Interim Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Andrea Mirenda (Interim Executive Director)
- Janine Premil (Finance Director)
- Deloris Ouren (Board Chair)
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
To transform lives through the physical, mental, social and emotional benefits of partner dance. Our values are respect, elegance, and teamwork. Heart of Dance delivers the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of partner dance to those who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to experience them. Dancing Classrooms, our foundational program, teaches crucial life skills like confidence, cultural awareness, conflict resolution and gender respect through the lens of partner dance in schools across Minnesota. In classrooms of K through eighth grade, we engage students with these concepts at an age proven to have the greatest impact. Partner dance leads to confidence, self-expression, joyful movement, discipline, human connection, and more.
What it reported doing in 2024
When you get into dance frame and look directly into your partner's eyes, you understand them at a different level. Overcoming divisions of race, culture, and opportunity, in Dancing Classrooms everybody dances with everybody and students learn to work together with people who are different from themselves. K through eighth graders continue to tackle this challenge while discovering more about themselves and connecting with others. More than dance steps, we're seeing confidence, gender and culture respect, teamwork, conflict resolution, and more. Both educators and parents reported increased confidence, peer respect, and lessening of behavior issues as a result of students' participation in the program. Educators saw positive changes in the way their students treated each other, parents noticed positive changes in how their child felt about themself, and teachers noticed a positive change in their classroom environment. We launched our new senior adult wellness program four years ago. We have groups of senior adults coming together to experience the healing combination of music and movement to strengthen balance and cognitive focus, while improving physical strength and stamina, and increasing social connections.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
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: -26.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K 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: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.