Pulse Dance Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453716849
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9073507793
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,638
- Expenses
- $124,951
- Assets
- $107,492
- Liabilities
- $49,056
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Wonchala (Executive Director)
- Jonathon Taylor (President)
People named in this filing
- Pia Wonchala (Treasurer)
- Stephanie Wonchala (Executive Director)
- Jonathon Taylor (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2025
Immersive dance theater - annual evening length concert featuring all-new works created collaboratively.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.9%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 24.6%; rating input score 25
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: 11.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 50.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.9% of revenue deployed · 24.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.