New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble Inc Attn Barbara Carocci
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223308553
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Newberry, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9082735500
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ballet
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,247
- Expenses
- $589,177
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA CAROCCI (VICE-PRESIDENT, TREASURER)
- NANCY TURANO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NANCY TURANO (PRESIDENT): $124,822 total reported compensation
- BARBARA CAROCCI (VICE-PRESIDENT, TREASURER): $123,817 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
New Jersey dance theatre ensemble provides the highest quality, pre-professional training to aspiring dancers from New Jersey through professional experiences with world-renowned dancers, teachers, choreographers, and musicians. Founded in 1969, and under the artistic direction of master teacher and choreographer nancy turano since 1994, the ensemble fosters advanced ballet, modern, and contemporary dance programs for dancers ages 7-22 throughout New Jersey and the New York city metro area. Njdte mentors dancers toward higher education and professionalism in dance and provides its alumni with employment opportunities as njdte staff members and guest artists.
What it reported doing in 2025
Njdte schoolnew jersey dance theatre ensemble celebrated 56 years of forward-thinking programming that empowers dancers with contemporary technologies as well as traditional dance forms. Njdte, located in summit, nj, provides the highest quality, pre-professional training to aspiring dancers through professional experiences with world-renowned dancers, teachers, choreographers, and musicians. Founded in 1969 under the direction of internationally acclaimed ballet master alfredo corvino, and led by award-winning artistic director nancy turano since 1994, njdte has maintained a successful dance curriculum with an unparalleled outcome of artistic excellence. Njdte has been acknowledged for creating innovative training and mentoring programs for dancers and choreographers in the New York city metro area, including movement invention project, mip2, contemporary choreographic residencies, njdte mentors dancers toward higher education and professionalism in dance and provides its alumni with employment opportunities as njdte guest artists, faculty, choreographers, and staff. Njdte performing ensemblesince 1969, njdte provides pre-professional performance opportunities with internationally renowned choreographers including sidra bell, shannon gillen, adam barruch, elizabeth roxas-dobrish, cherice barton, loni landon, belinda mcguire, andrea miller, kate skarpetowska, bradley shelver, and artistic director nancy turano. Students have also performed works by master choreographers twyla tharp, david parsons, and robert battle. Auditions for the ensemble are in september and january for ages 9-18. Performance opportunities include the nutcracker and repertory performances at montclair state university, purchase performing arts center, peridance capezio center, and other venues in the New Jersey and New York city metropolitan area. Njdtealumninjdte alumni have gone on to pursue dance in the top universities including; juilliard, nyu, ailey/forham, usc, and purchase to name a few. Others successfully transitioned into professional careers in prestigious companies such as national ballet of canada, houston ballet, les ballets jazz de montreal, staatsballett saarbrcken, sacramento ballet, ballet hispanico, complexions, and New Jersey ballet amongst others. They have additionally become master teachers, choreographers and directors throughout the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 1
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -338.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $443K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.