Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362950283
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3128509744
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,343,162
- Expenses
- $5,539,118
- Assets
- $11,564,632
- Liabilities
- $345,080
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID MCDERMOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KRISTEN CONLEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID MCDERMOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $212,095 total reported compensation
- LINDA-DENISE FISHER-HARRELL (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $198,538 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago brings top choreographers and works to Chicago and beyond, introducing audiences to cutting-edge contemporary dance and encouraging dance exploration through imaginative educational programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Training, education and communityhsdc's education programs build sustainable partnerships with cps that include in-school residencies, teacher professional development, teaching artist training, and performance opportunities. In the 2024-25 school year, teaching artists led dance education in over 90 classrooms across 50 schools. Hubbard street also welcomed students to three free student matinee performances-an in-person performance on november 22, 2024, at the steppenwolf theater for over 400 high school students, hubbard street's first dual-language matinee on february 14,2025, for over 1,200 students at the harris theater for music and dance, and virtual matinee called hubbard live! Offered in the spring. Our adaptive dance programs serve participants with different abilities through our responsive pedagogy. In diverse learning classrooms, teaching artists guide students through dance technique and the choreographic process using dance-specific visual supports and developmentally appropriate methods. Hsdc's movement for wellness: parkinson's project helps participants and caregivers build dexterity, community, and confidence in four separate session periods throughout the year. Hsdc continues to offer our annual summer intensive programs, which allow dancers from ages 13-25 the opportunity to engage with diverse voices in the field in three separate sessions from july-august. Hubbard street has added an adult intensive session called dance on! For dancers 26 and up and continued our fellowship opportunities for 4-6 young dancers to be invited back to hubbard street to rehearse alongside the company in the fall.
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 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.09; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.7% of revenue deployed · 73.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $212K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $139K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.