Helios Dance Theater
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954555796
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104540990
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,406
- Expenses
- $129,300
- Assets
- $1,846
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA GORENSTEIN MILLER (President)
People named in this filing
- LAURA GORENSTEIN MILLER (President)
- CHRIS MILLER (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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create and preserve modern dance and educate the public about this dramatic art.
What it reported doing in 2013
Helios restaged two full story ballets from Helios repertoire, and toured them in Canada. The program was presented by Alberta Ballet: HELIOS DANCE THEATER AN EXTRAORDINARY NIGHT OF LITERATURE COMES TO LIFE. Helios conducted 3 performances at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary Alberta Feb 21st, 22nd & 23rd, and 2 performances at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton Alberta March 1, & 2nd. These performances were open to the public and each served an audience of 2,500. Description of the program here: Helios Dance Theater presents an evening of dance inspired by literature. Excerpts from About Anne: A Diary in Dance is inspired by the text of Anne Franks: The Diary of a Young Girl. Found in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's incredible diary tells how in 1942 her family fled their home in Nazi occupied Amsterdam, and went into hiding for the next two years, until their whereabouts was betrayed to the Gestapo. This dance drama integrates movement, music, and film to explore and celebrate Annes spirit of self-examination and her will to live. Helios Dance Theaters Artistic Director, Laura Gorenstein Miller, created this piece with the belief that the memory of human potential, both good and evil, should remain alive within each of us. The evenings second riveting ballet, The Lotus Eaters, gives a contemporary perspective to Homers classic The Odyssey. Odysseus and his men become stranded on the island where the lotus-eaters live. Seduced into eating the lotus fruit, the soldiers succumb to a pleasurable state of forgetfulness and apathy from war, family, strife, and fear. Built on themes of masculinity, duty and power, this emotional examination of war, innocence and honour forms a powerfully kinetic testimony to the nature of resistance and temptation. This creation is complemented by costume designs from Project Runway finalist Rami Kashou and music from Rolling Stones 1995 Best Male Vocalist, Grant-Lee Phillips.At both venues Helios also conducted educational outreach for local students, with the piece from About Ann: A Diary in Dance.Helios self presented both pieces as works in progress in Los Angeles at the Broad Stage prior to the tour. Helios conducted ongoing educational outreach to Los Angeles area schools throughout the calendar year, and also conducted two in school dance classes as part of College of the Canyons arts education program for young children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- 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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th 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 · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.