Shen Wei Dance Arts
Legal name: Shen Wei Dance Arts Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061634051
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129621113
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,588
- Expenses
- $108,702
- Assets
- $81,091
- Liabilities
- $11,638
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- TONI MCNICOLL (CHAIR)
- SHEN WEI (PRESIDENET)
- ERIC WEI (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Shen Wei Dance Arts creates and presents innovative dance works that integrate movement, visual art, and theatrical design, reflecting the artistic vision of founder Shen Wei.
What it reported doing in 2024
To create and perform movement-based work that transcends east and west, incorporating elements from ritual theater, contemporary dance, visual arts, chinese opera techniques, and eastern philosophy. Artistic director shen wei's "natural body development technique" derives from his structural study of these complementary forms; the application of that study to movement results in a startlingly new hybrid form of dance. The organization performs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
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: 29.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 83.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.