Streb Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133268549
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7183846491
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,847,975
- Expenses
- $2,009,630
- Assets
- $1,630,409
- Liabilities
- $257,933
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH STREB (PRESIDENT / CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH STREB (PRESIDENT / CEO): $126,234 total reported compensation
- CASSANDRE JOSEPH (CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $104,592 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Streb's mission is to support, perform, and share widely the work of choreographer elizabeth streb. Built around streb's organizing principle "extreme action," a movement style that thrills participants, audiences, and students with choreographed feats of physicality, scientifically planned chaos, strength, risk, grace, and elegance, streb actively engages with, ensures inclusion of, and advances cultural equity for its diverse staff, audiences and communities. This is achieved via a broad range of performance, engagement and education programming that provides access to, and participation in, creation and presentation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Performances: streb engages audiences with the work of founder and artistic director elizabeth streb via performances by the streb extreme action company. In fy2025, streb continued its post-pandemic return to live performances while continuing to share the thrill of extreme action more widely to the global online community. During the 2024-2025 season, the company presented performances at the breckenridge festival of the arts in Colorado. Slam shows, at the company's home venue in williamsburg, brooklyn, were presented in fall 2024 and spring 2025 and featured streb extreme action's 8 dancer company performing elizabeth streb's signature choreography, including new works, repertory favorites, and works-in-progress.educational programming @ s.l.a.m. (streb lab for action mechanics): streb's popaction school and espaa-streb trapeze academy classes enable youth and adults to engage with the sheer physicality of elizabeth streb's unique, signature style of action and movement. Classes intertwine dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, hollywood-style stunt work, trapeze, acrobatics, and circus arts. Students are encouraged to explore self-expression, creativity, self-discipline, and resilience. Special programs include teen and tween action clubs and the streb kid company.community engagement & access: streb partners with a range of school and community organizations to reach a diverse constituency, including local youth and families, immigrants, and individuals with disabilities.school residencies: streb works with k-12 schools over the academic year to offer classes and opportunities to watch and engage with the company. School partners in fy2025 included poly prep academy, trevor day school, and berkeley carroll school, jems ms126.we also engaged participants from Washington and lee university, Florida state university, and ps166 afterschool program.community partnerships: streb partners with community organizations to bring personal best popaction classes to individuals from underserved communities in nyc. Community partners in fy2024 included bloomberg arts and culture, mt. First tech fund, brave house, culture pass, tdf, play by play and others.rental program: slam, the organization's converted williamsburg warehouse, with 24' ceilings, 22' automated trusses and a brightly colored, column free 50'x50' footprint, is a unique space which embraces and incubates a vibrant community of artists working at the intersection of dance, extreme action, aerial arts, and circus.as such, streb's rental program provides space to a diverse community of local artists to work, create, teach, rehearse, document, film, and perform a range of works.streb offers subsidized rental rates for working artists who benefit from the unique space and philosophy and hosts curated "friday nights at slam" for these artists to perform before a live audience.through this initiative, the company aims to embody its commitment to work that is guided by streb's principles of artistic experimentation, inclusiveness, open access, audience sovereignty and community engagement.slam's rental program also engages the local community as a popular destination to celebrate a special event, with organized activities led by the action heroes of streb. From birthday parties and weddings to baby showers and other life event celebrations, these special events introduce new families to the organization, who often return as future audience members or students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.1%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.4%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.1% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 51/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.