Motion Pacific Dance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465251353
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4085085125
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $357,174
- Expenses
- $339,765
- Assets
- $263,913
- Liabilities
- $1,306
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA WILEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- COLLETTE TABONE (SECRETARY): $45,050 total reported compensation
- MELISSA WILEY (PRESIDENT): $17,122 total reported compensation
- MOLLY KATZMAN (BOARD MEMBER): $11,542 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Motion pacific dance was formed to promote dance presentation, education and awareness to the general public. We carry out our mission through the following means: assisting in the creation of original dance productions. Encouraging artistic and organizational collaboration to support the arts in santa cruz county. Increasing visability for dance artists in an effort to bring new audiences to dance through local annual free dance events. Fostering the work of local dance artists by producing the work of regional, national, and international artists.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote dance presentation, education, and awareness to the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 44.4%; rating input score 44; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $299K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.