Movin Legacy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460571501
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,296
- Expenses
- $9,030
- Assets
- $29,851
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey Page (Founder and CEO)
People named in this filing
- Debon Lewis (Board Chair)
- Imoh Akpan (Board Treasurer)
- Dr Patricia Carver (Board Trustee)
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
This organization is organized exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. Movin' legacy's purpose is to cultivate an institution for performing arts, especially for the dispersion of african dance; holding and hosting music, dance and theatrical productions; researching documenting and preserving archives of dance' providing below market rates for a physical space to offer discounted or free classes to inner-city youth and other underprivileged populations. Not withstanding any other provision of these articles, the organization shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on by an organization exempt from federal income tax as an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code (or corresponding section of any future federal tax code)
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Movin' Legacy delivered program services that advanced public cultural transmission and strengthened long-term safeguarding infrastructure for African and African diasporic dance traditions. The organization continued its practitioner-led Fireside Chat Oral History Series, generating durable, archive-ready records that center narrator agency and consent-forward documentation practices. It expanded public education through film-based dissemination, advancing a documentary short that links Malian dance traditions with African American blues and themes of resistance, healing, and diasporic continuity, and supported public screenings and related outreach. Movin' Legacy sustained a year-round digital education initiative that amplified African and diasporic dance traditions, increased short-form video reach and engagement, and strengthened a discovery-to-participation pipeline for the public. The organization maintained and grew an active digital archive of approximately 2,000 assets (nearly 5 TB)-including oral histories, field documentation, performance footage, photography, transcripts, and metadata-while improving file organization, naming conventions, and retrieval processes to increase usability for research, programming, and community benefit. It advanced repository development and workforce capacity through a structured community archive internship model focused on metadata standardization and enhanced findability, supported by regular check-ins and deliverable tracking. Movin' Legacy implemented ethical documentation protocols through its internal "Consent, Context, Credit" posture to ensure informed consent, narrator review, and community authority over access, and aligned metadata practices with recognized standards. It also completed GRIOT fieldwork outputs from late-2024 to early-2025 ceremonial and educational documentation, producing 53 edited video assets and strengthening post-production workflows, and continued development of a Living Atlas digital initiative that redesigns geospatial frameworks with culturally accurate, consent-governed infrastructure.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.6%; rating input score 26
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 74.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.31; rating input score 76; 76th 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: 72.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 65.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 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 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.