MODArts Dance Collective Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872210130
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9293525253
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,936
- Expenses
- $77,547
- Assets
- $229,128
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Shaun Tubbs (Director)
- Leah Tubbs (Director)
- Harriette Smiley (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
MODArts Dance Collective, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing dance, visual arts, music arts, spoken words, in a theater environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
MODArts Dance Collective (MADC)'s three largest programs in 2025 were the Collective Thread Dance Festival and Accompanying Residency; the programming o? ering during the West Harlem Arts Alliance Innovation Triangle: Create and Connect; and the Move to Change Dance Festival and Accompanying Residency. This year's tenth annual Collective Thread had 16 artists who participated in the residency; 30 audience members experienced the free public works in progress showing; 18 choreographers, collaborators, and dance companies presented in this seasons Collective Thread Dance Festival evening concerts; 87 dancers performed between both evening concerts; and 315 audience members experienced the evening concerts either in person, through livestream, or on demand. For the West Harlem Arts Alliance Innovation Triangle: Create and Connect, 6 local artists participated in the open-level dance class, and a total of 60 community members either observed the class/rehearsal or attended the informal dance performance. This year's Move to Change had 9 participating artists in the residency; 20 community members who experienced the free public sharing; 11 presenting choreographers, collaborators, and dance companies who shared their work live; 9 cinematographers dance films were streamed online from November 8-29; 50 artists performed either in person or in a dance film; and 114 audience members experienced Move to Change either in person, livestream, or on demand.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.6%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 32%; rating input score 32
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: 38.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 46.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.6% of revenue deployed · 32% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.