Holdtight Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994477941
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,427
- Expenses
- $66,410
- Assets
- $13,006
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gwendolyn Gussman (Artistic Director President Treasurer)
- Jonathan Bost (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Gwendolyn Gussman (Artistic Director President Treasurer)
- Jonathan Bost (Vice President)
- Alexander Taylor (Production Manager 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
HOLDTIGHT HT is a Performing Arts Non-Profit based in Denver Colorado that creates and presents live performance film and educational offerings to illuminate the intersection of art environmental activism psyche and the human body HOLDTIGHT hires a diverse range of boundary-pushing local national and international artists who work in the mediums of dance music theater lighting scenography and spoken word to come together and create transformative experiences which elicit questions conversations interconnection and deep joy supporting humanity toward healing and radical forward-thinking change HOLDTIGHT presents immersive work in both traditional theater spaces as well as non-traditional spaces such as galleries museums restaurants courtyards historic homes and more
What it reported doing in 2025
Wild Oscillation A live performance piece and multi-course dinner theater made in collaboration with Denver restaurant Somebody People The meal was entirely plant-based with food sourced from local Colorado farms HOLDTIGHT created and then performed this original work using live painting dance song live and original music lighting design and audience participation for audiencesparticipants to consider their inner wildness in relationship to the greater outdoors and wildlife The immersive performance lasts over the course of an evening where the audience moves between rooms of the restaurant enjoying a meal and participating in the artistic practice both in movement and also in adding to a painting that is live created throughout the piece as well Audiences take a piece of the painting home as well This production ran four times in 2025 and served 120 audience members This production was named one of the top three immersive theater performances of 2025 by Onstage Colorado
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.6%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.6% of revenue deployed · 24.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.