Syzygy Dance Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272215103
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Sausalito, CA, USA
Phone
4152721896
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,198
Expenses
$71,419
Assets
$27,202
Liabilities
$629

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WENDY HEFFNER (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • SYLVIE MINOT (PRES/EXEC DIR)
  • WENDY HEFFNER (Vice President)
  • TINA VALENTINE (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

Syzygy Dance Projects mission is to offer dance to all people, particularly those in lifes most constraining circumstances. We are dedicated to bringing transformation and healing by aligning mind, body, and spirit through the power of movement and dance. We work with veterans, inmates, recovering addicts, at-risk youth and elderly populations, people with chronic illnesses and caregivers.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, we continued to create online and in-person programs. Our class series on Zoom, working with indigenous traditions and movement is progressing beautifully. We offer three 7-week series in 2024. We renewed our contract with Newbridge Services to offer movement classes to the elderly across the country in New Jersey. Our classes continue progress as we were able to offer our work in Washington DC, New York, and West Virginia. Our classes at the Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto, CA are going strongly with an additional movement class for blind veterans. Our class with the Catholic Charities offering dance to women with severe trauma in a transitional living community house continue to do well in 2024. We are excited to have been invited to offer a workshop for the staff at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in 2024 and will continue in 2025. The staff works with families with trauma from violence. We have been invited to do a wellness class for the healthcare leaders at UCSF in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.5%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.5% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.