Movement Exchange
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453605596
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9162124777
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,421
- Expenses
- $45,936
- Assets
- $34,016
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zachary Jones (President)
People named in this filing
- Anna Pasternak (Treasurer)
- Zachary Jones (President)
- Blair Brown (Executive Dir.)
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
Unite dance and service in underserved communities
What it reported doing in 2025
Movement Exchange unites dance and community service, addressing gaps in accessible dance education while providing a structured avenue for dancers to contribute meaningfully to underserved communities. United States Programs University chapters across the country deliver in-person dance education to local communities, offering free classes through partnerships with youth foundations, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, and schools serving students with disabilities, among others. In 2025, our network of 48 chapter members provided dance service hours to 3185 beneficiaries across the United States and Panama. International Exchange Programs: Panama Movement Exchange hosted 3 international dance exchanges to Panama in 2025, engaging university students from Montclair State University, University of Pittsburgh, Western Michigan University, James Madison University, University of California, Irvine, and California State University, Channel Islands. Collectively, our Dance Diplomats contributed 896 hours of free dance instruction, workshops, and cross-cultural exchange activities during their time in Panama. Year-Round Panama Programming 4 full-year instructors deliver weekly, in-person dance education to youth at partner schools and community foundations throughout Panama. Programming extends beyond the studio to include museum field trips, specialty dance workshops, visits to live performances, holiday gift deliveries, and other enrichment activities for our Panamanian students.
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
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.8%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 89
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: 29.8%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.8% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.8% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.