Redwood Rainbows Square Dance Club Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263784994
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sebastopol, CA, USA
Phone
7072289854
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$76,508
Expenses
$81,622
Assets
$27,664

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kathy Oetinger (President)
  • Lucy Whitworth (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Kathy Oetinger (President)
  • Lucy Whitworth (Vice President)
  • Gary Shirley (Secretary)

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

Form 990-EZ Part III, Line (28-31): Line 28 Workshops and Dances: The Redwood Rainbows Square Dance Club Inc. promotes the traditions and enjoyment of square dancing and holds regular classes to teach the dance skills required to perpetuate this traditional form of folk art. The dance curriculum followed by the Redwood Rainbows is provided by the CallerLab International Association of Square Dance Callers, which establishes a world-wide standard of square dance calls to be taught in square dance classes and workshops. Classes start twice a year and are conducted at sessions held 4 days a week. The cost to produce the dance classes and workshops in 2025 was $41,743 including $28,998 paid to callers, $4,223 for caller transportation, $1,603 for Club Dance and $6,919 for a Special Club event. Part III, Line (28-31) Line 29 Maintaining Facilities - In addition to sponsoring dances, the Redwood Rainbows Square Dance Club, Inc. owns a dance hall that it makes available to other dance groups for a modest rent. The dance hall is built on land leased from the City of Sebastopol, and if the lease is terminated for any reason, ownership of the hall reverts to the City. (Because of that clause, the hall is not included when computing Club assets.) The cost to maintain the hall in 2025 was $30,944, including $4519.37 for facility supplies and cleaning service, $10,795.22 for the HVAC system, $3,250 for the floors, $105 for fire extinqishers, $9,002.76 for utilities, $677.31 for painting, $337.53 for landscaping, $2,149.75 for plumbing and $106.72 for miscellaneous repairs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 81% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.