Pointeworks

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923444407
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ballet

Reported finances

Revenue
$153,747
Expenses
$173,287
Assets
$19,724
Liabilities
$28,497

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Sophie Williams (Director of the Board & Founder)
  • Sophie Savas-Carstens (Secretary of the Board)
  • David Williams (Treasurer of the Board)

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

Pointeworks primary exempt purpose is to advance the performing arts by providing professional dancers choreographers and musicians with opportunities to create and present new work. The organization supports the development of original choreography particularly by female-identifying artists while producing high-quality performances. Pointeworks also engages the public through open rehearsals educational programs and accessible performances designed to expand community access to live dance and foster appreciation for the arts.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program 2 Mentorship & Educational Programming - Pointeworks provided mentorship and educational opportunities for emerging dancers through professional-level classes open rehearsals and direct engagement with working artists. These programs offered participants access to the creative process career guidance and exposure to new choreography in a professional setting.The organization facilitated opportunities for early-career dancers to train alongside and learn from established professionals supporting artistic development and career advancement. These initiatives expanded access to high-quality dance education and fostered the next generation of artists.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.44; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 72.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $173K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.