Sukanya Burman Dance
Legal name: Sukanya Burman Dance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933018222
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Jamestown, NY, USA
- Phone
- +1 (716) 720 8219
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,490
- Expenses
- $104,492
- Assets
- $80,026
- Liabilities
- $250
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SUKANYA BURMAN (EXEC. ARTIST): $13,500 total reported compensation
- DARYL SIMONS JR (ASSOCIATE DI): $4,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our board members are committed to fostering an environment of inclusivity, creativity, and respect for multicultural values and heritage. They are the backbone of our organization, guiding us with their visionary leadership and unwavering support as we embark on our journey to enrich the community through the transformative power of dance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sukanya burman dance continued to prioritize access and depth in dance education through sustained community engagement. In partnership with the ywca jamestowns leap program, the organization expanded its afterschool programming across fletcher, bush, and westfield elementary schools, providing consistent, high-quality dance education to youth. Sbd also brought specialized workshops for jamestown high school students. Beyond k12 programming, the company offered workshops, masterclasses, and open classes for a wide range of participants in both chautauqua county and erie county, fostering meaningful partnerships with organizations including evergreen health, lisa taylor academy of dance, studio dance conservatory, university of pittsburgh at bradford, and the reg lenna memory caf. These initiatives reflect a continued commitment to dance as both an educational and community-building practice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.1%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.7%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 86.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 141.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 40.1% of revenue deployed · 65.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.