Nickerson-Rossi Dance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813356194
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5625476453
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $951,173
- Expenses
- $982,513
- Assets
- $24,066
- Liabilities
- $22,730
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael R Nickerson (President)
People named in this filing
- Michael R Nickerson (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide professional, educational, therapeutic, and community engagement dance programming on a larger scale to make a greater impact.
What it reported doing in 2024
-Create dance theater for the local and surrounding community-Offer a variety of dance classes and programs for both youth and adults-Lead all event planning, coordination, and management activities in a manner that results in a professional, well-run program, based on program mission.-Create all essential event planning documents, ie: About Us Event Document, Detailed Event Budget, Fundraising Plan and Sponsorship Documents, Marketing Plan, Event Outline and all related and supportive documentation necessitated in due course.-Manage day to day administrative responsibilities of festival operations, including ticketing, compliance (ie permits, fees, licensing) and management reporting.-Execute and/or oversee production plans including securing venues, contractors and supplies.-Negotiate and execute all aspects of the marketing plan, including social media.-Organization and oversight of volunteers and advisory council.-Show advancement and logistical management.-Work with local community, City personnel, business leaders and merchant and hospitality partners as the organizing force of the programs that umbrella under the non profit.-Take active role in identifying and developing donors and sponsorships, including being present for special fundraising events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 53% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 40.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $777K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.