Tamboula Ethnic Dance Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562355445
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2011, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7735170195
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,485
- Expenses
- $53,533
- Assets
- $26,360
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Corporation is organized for charitable and educational purposes. The mission it to present traditional and modern choreographies that narrate Afro-Haitian and Haitian culture and societal experiences through sharing the art of dance and music."
What it reported doing in 2011
Dance performances to the general public
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.1%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 26%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 56.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.1% of revenue deployed · 26% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2010 to 2011
- Money network: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.