Northern Plains Ballet
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450450143
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7015300986
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $704,853
- Expenses
- $660,876
- Assets
- $1,526,693
- Liabilities
- $641,813
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- HOLLIS MACKINTOSH HEID (EXECUTIVE DI): $83,949 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire the appreciation of dance through artistic excellence and to enrich the cultural landscape of our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Northern plains ballet focuses in 3 major areas of dance education. Dance training for students ages 3 to adult in ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, musical theater and modern dance styles. In addition to regularly scheduled classes, npb also holds adult social dance workshops as well as classes for parents and their children ages 10 months to 3 years. The average number of classes taken per week increases as a student progress through the dance curriculum. Students have been accepted in and attended nationally recognized summer programs for promising young dancers and into nationally recognized university programs. Annually, npb presents a full performance season with four main productions providing opportunities for bismarck area audiences to experience and understand the power of dance performance in communicating aspects of the human experience, while simultaneously providing students enrolled in the academy with opportunities to gain performance experience in professionally produced productions. The two annual full length ballet productions feature an average of 125 performers and presented to sold out auditoriums, while the two mixed repertoire performance average 35 performers and are presented to smaller audiences in boutique settings. Npd's current strategy for advancing the art of dance is to grow its educational outreach efforts, seek partnerships with other performing arts organizations, and create performances that are accessible for audiences new to the dance art form. Npd is in active communication with community groups as varied as arts organizations, government entities, local primary and secondary schools, colleges, and social service agencies to develop new programs and partnerships to benefit the community. Twelve outreach programs are built to ensure that dance is accessible to everyone.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.6%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 68.1%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.31; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.6% of revenue deployed · 68.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $450K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.