Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center

What it reported doing in 2025

TWDCC provides a dance and cultural center with programs falling under three categories: youth dance training program, the Diaspora Performance Project, and serving as a community cultural center.Through each of these programs we provide a working home for professional world and contemporary dance artists and affordable and equitable dance education and cultural space for Santa Cruz County Residents.Our Youth Program offers exceptional dance training to over 200 local youths aged 3-18, including weekly dance classes during the school year, four week-long summer Camps, and multiple weeks of summer Intensives highlighting Modern and Contemporary dance as well as dance film-making.TWDCC also has six youth pre-professional performing dance companies that are built on the foundation of training, leadership and discipline. The TWDCC youth program provides a dance and cultural center that has become a second home to many of our students. We currently offer full andpartial need-based scholarships to about 20% of our youth students, including scholarships to every child who lives at the Tannery Arts Center where we are located. This year we provided 41 dance scholarships to under served students in our community worth $55,696.In 2025 TWDCC continued to support our Diaspora Performance Project (DPP) Resident Artists. Since 2018, we have supported selected professional dancers who have immigrated to Santa Cruz from their country of origin. This year, the five Resident Artists representing the African Diaspora from the countries of Congo, Cuba, Haiti, Senegal and Burkina Faso. TWDCC supported an African DanceConference by providing free studio use, advertising/promotional support, administrative support, and 20 full scholarships for Black adult dancers. We also continue to support these amazing artists in our community with grant writing support, free studio space to hold weekly public classes, free studio space to hold rehearsals for upcoming projects, and performance opportunities throughout the year.In 2025, TWDCC continued to produce public dance performances and festivals for the Santa Cruz community, returning with the Winter Dance Festival and the Deep Roots Dance Festival. We also host artistic and dance events in our space year-round. Through these community conversations, audiences and participants have opportunities to watch, engage, and learn from performances, curated festivals, artist talks and community dance classes. We estimate reaching about 4500 audience members andparticipants through these events.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
• Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
• Fundraising efficiency: $3.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th 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: 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings