Leslie Cuyjet Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991884268
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5025580297
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $132,282
- Expenses
- $86,831
- Assets
- $136,122
- Liabilities
- $74,547
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cynthia Oliver (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Leslie Cuyjet (Artistic Director)
- Cynthia Oliver (Board Vice President)
- Jennifer Castro Song (Board Secretary and Treasurer)
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
Leslie Cuyjet, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the public through dance and interdisciplinary performance. The organization produces exhibitions that foster critical reflection, expand access to experimental work, and engage diverse audiences. Grounded in the artistic practice of choreographer Leslie Cuyjet, the organization concentrates its inquiry into embodiment, history, and representation, contributing to the cultural field while prioritizing public engagement and impact.
What it reported doing in 2025
Leslie Cuyjet, Inc. supported the artistic development of choreographer Leslie Cuyjet through residency programs at Chinati Foundation, Watermill Center, Performance Space New York, and David Zwirner gallery. The residencies enabled the creation and presentation of new works to audiences and arts communities. 165 persons participated in resulting public programs, exhibitions, or presentations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.6%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
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: 34.4%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.6% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.