Mestizo Dance Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364807520
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Elmhurst, NY, USA
Phone
9177450072
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$76,489
Expenses
$1,610
Assets
$87,471
Liabilities
$12,592

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ARMANDO MORENO (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ARMANDO MORENO (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Typical dances of ColombiaDancing Entertainment Services with volunteer people who love spending their time dancing, learning and practicing choreographies. They receive an incentive for their participation in the event.

What it reported doing in 2025

Mestizo Dance Incs mission is to showcase Colombian heritage and Latin folklore through music and dance. Promoting dance into the diverse cultures within our communities and motivating the audience to share their own culture and also to be part of an extraordinary and versatile society. Mestizo Dance Inc seeks to maintain, teach, motivate, promote, and exhibit the splendor of the dance tradition with people.

Operating model

Revenue model
Affiliate-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 6
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 97.9%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 54.33; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.