Rochester Dance Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204174471
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rochester, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5077221036
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $139,808
- Expenses
- $122,628
- Assets
- $208,277
- Liabilities
- $21,448
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE EPP (President)
- ALISSA NAYMARK (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- STEVE EPP (President)
- ALISSA NAYMARK (Vice President)
- REBECCA MOHS (Director)
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
Rochester dance company is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization which aims to provide a professional quality training program and exceptional, unique performance opportunities to talented young dancers in the rochester area. Providing these opportunities to dancers and audience members alike fosters a lifelong support of the arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the organization offered two artistic dance productions. Peter pan was performed in april at the rochester civic theatre featuring 49 dancers. This was performed for a live audience with three public shows. In december 2025, a full nutcracker production featuring 90 youth dancers and 11 adult performers included special performances for individuals with disabilities, three performances for school age children, and the general public performances. Both productions involve several months of classes and rehearsals, including the opportunity for member dancers to train and receive instruction from professional instructors. With these productions, the organization was able to provide quality local art to over 5,780 adults and children in the southeast Minnesota community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.