Melange Dance Theatre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811143015
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 8476513119
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,154
- Expenses
- $79,479
- Assets
- $8,693
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alexa Lambert (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Michael Tebeleff (Board chair)
- Alix Tarnowsky (Vice Board Chair)
- Monica Ordonez (Artistic Director)
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
The Corporation is organized exclusively for, and shall operate exclusively for, educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future Federal Tax Code. The Corporation's purpose is to bring contemporary dance to the forefront and make contemporary dance accessible to New Orleanians in a number of ways. By promoting contemporary dance that as a meaningful, expressive narrative with strong musicality and collaboration with other art forms to engage and enrich the culture of the Louisiana, and more specifically, New Orleans community (the "Community"); By promoting contemporary dance as a rigorous activity for achieving physical and mental fitness and general well being among the community; By providing an opportunity for professional dancers to perform regularly, and learn, grow and craft high quality dance together.
What it reported doing in 2025
Premiered new pieces to original music by Kristin Diable at the BK House Rhythm and Roses series. Included 7 dancers and was attended by about 50 guests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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
STRONG - 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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
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: 4.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.