Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet
Legal name: Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852456481
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ballston Spa, NY, US
- Phone
- 518-306-4037
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $343,820
- Expenses
- $312,286
- Assets
- $238,044
- Liabilities
- $5,703
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Cristiane Santos (Chairwoman): $60,096 total reported compensation
- Joan K Anderson (Vice Chair): $60,096 total reported compensation
- Jason Bedell (Treasurer): $2,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that is committed to providing quality professional dance training to pre-professional students throughout the Greater Saratoga region.
What it reported doing in 2024
During its fifth year of operations, Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet continued to provide high-quality dance training to over 130 children from the Greater Saratoga Region, including four scholarship recipients. The corporation consistently works to expand its outreach programs, having presented performances at the Saratoga Springs Public Library, The Hyde Collection, Home of the Good Shepherd, and seven public schools. Additionally, Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet students participated in the Victorian Street Walk in Saratoga Springs, performed with the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra at the Glens Falls High School, and appeared at the Festival of Young Artists at the Saratoga Arts Performing Arts Center. Approximately 120 dancers performed in our fourth Nutcracker production at the University at Albany Performing Arts Center, with free tickets provided to AIM Services, Capital Pride Center, and Greenwich Youth Center.In May, twelve dancers traveled to Scranton, PA, to attend the Regional Dance America Northeast Festival. All Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet students performed at the June Spring Concert. Our students are never charged audition, performance, or costume fees. Over a period of six weeks, we offered four distinct summer programs with renowned dance educators.
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 - 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 voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 49
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.1%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 57.1% of revenue deployed · 63.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $198K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.