Rise City Dance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933823213
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
7705969252
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Schools

Reported finances

Revenue
$210,046
Expenses
$186,880
Assets
$38,328
Liabilities
$211

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Mark Tioxon (Board Chair)
  • Amy Husseini (Chair Elect)
  • Michele Swing (Board Member Treasurer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Rise City Dance is a nonprofit youth performing arts organization dedicated to advancing dance education and providing artistic development and performance opportunities for youth dancers. Through training mentorship public performances and community-based programming the organization develops dancers artistic and technical skills while expanding access to high-quality performing arts experiences. Rise City Dance seeks to inspire audiences enrich the cultural life of the community and foster the next generation of performing artists.

What it reported doing in 2025

Rise City Dance expanded access to youth dance through high-impact community engagement performances throughout the Atlanta area during the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Dancers performed at the High Museum of Art on two separate occasions in November 2025 and March 2026 presenting a total of four performances. In October 2025 the full Rise City Dance company performed at a major NBA game at State Farm Arena. Throughout the season dancers also performed at an Oakland Cemetery festival the Grant Park Church Holiday Market Dance Fest at Kennesaw State University and Burgess-Peterson Elementary School. Collectively these community engagements reached approximately 10,000 audience members while providing young dancers with meaningful performance experience and expanding access to dance across cultural educational and community venues.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 74% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 64.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $166K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.