Southeast Texas Ballet Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760577994
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Nederland, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4093515235
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,553
- Expenses
- $75,676
- Assets
- $41,956
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lacie Stelly (President)
- Rebecca Griffen (Co-2nd Vice President)
- Angie Melancon (2nd Vice President)
- Stephanie Best (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lacie Stelly (President)
- Lisa Ditz (Secretary)
- Summer Thompson (Historian)
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
The Southeast Texas Ballet Company provides over 100 dancers thoughout the area the opportunity to express themselves artistically through our annual performance and participation in a performing ballet company. The Southeast Texas Ballet Company proudly includes dancers from Nederland, Port Neches, Groves, Port Arthur, Beaumont, Hamshire, Fannett, Bridge City, Orange, and Vidor. Each year over 3,200 school age children and their teachers attend free performances by the Southeast Texas Ballet Company's production of "Babes in Toyland." Our talented dancers range in age from 6 to twenties and are from public and private schools, Lamar University, and several dance schools, including Taylor Dance Studio, home of the South East Texas Ballet Company.
What it reported doing in 2025
Babes in toyland performance and ballet education community wide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.