Sundance Association for Country Western Dancing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943336172
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158201403
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $212,588
- Expenses
- $195,126
- Assets
- $383,386
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ingu Yun (president, director)
- Richard Pocius (vice president, director)
People named in this filing
- Ingu Yun (president, director)
- Richard Pocius (vice president, director)
- Vince Avallone (director, secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing provides education in and programs for country-western dancing as a distinctly American art form for the LGBTQ+ community. As an all-volunteer and community-supported nonprofit organization, the Sundance Association fosters individual growth and passion, encourages volunteerism and philanthropic giving, and strives to create an inclusive and welcoming community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sundance Saloon. Twice-weekly dance lessons and open country-western dancing featuring a variety of dance forms including two-step, waltz, east coast swing, west coast swing, line dancing, and more. These events take place in a club setting and are open to the general public, with typically 80 attendees on a Thursday, and 160 on a Sunday. Dance lessons typically take place in multiple rooms, allowing for beginning and advanced level lessons simultaneously. Sundance Saloon caters to the LGBTQ+ community and its friends. Attendees are incredibly diverse, with ages ranging from 20s to 80s, men and women and nonbinary, cis and trans, gay and straight, all races and ethnicities, and all socioeconomic levels, mixing together easily and freely. Sundance Saloon offers a safe haven for older attendees (as well as younger attendees), folks in recovery, financially-challenged individuals, those struggling with isolation, and those needing a place for solace and renewal to help cope with life's challenges.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.4% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $191K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.