Milkleaf

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
994516900
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Irvine, CA, USA
Phone
2025315475
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$43,855
Expenses
$8,691
Assets
$60,264
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLOTTE GRIFFIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CHARLOTTE GRIFFIN (PRESIDENT)
  • MARGARET LEE (SECRETARY)
  • CHARLES GRIFFIN (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

Milkleaf creates and presents innovative dance experiences and multidisciplinary artistic collaborations that engage and educate the community and provide dancers and ancillary professionals opportunities to develop and expand their craft.

What it reported doing in 2025

Education & Outreach: Milkleaf's 5-year plan includes building relationships with local, regional, and national dance organizations, emphasizing pre-professional and professional dance education to contribute to high quality training in modern dance. The President accepted teaching invitations from The Wooden Floor and Orange County School for the Arts in Southern California in addition to offering a workshop at The American Dance Festival in North Carolina. She presented her pedagogical research at the 2025 National Dance Education Organization National Conference, titled "The Power of Movement: Dance Education Traditions and Innovations," in Detroit MI. These and other outreach activities were financed through guest artist honoraria and other organizations, benefiting milkleaf at no cost.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 19.8%; rating input score 20
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 80.2%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.93; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 54.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 82.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 19.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 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
  • 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 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.