Jawaahir Dance Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411650728
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128726050
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,232
- Expenses
- $38,849
- Assets
- $37,937
- Liabilities
- $97
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Theresa Kane (President)
People named in this filing
- Eileen Goren (Secretary)
- Cathy Petersen (Treasurer)
- Theresa Kane (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring the rich folkloric heritage of the Middle East to the theater stage and to provide training to make the Middle Eastern authentic dance form accessible to the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
To educate and teach ethnic dance to the community through workshops, classes, and performances. Approximate persons benefited: 400.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.