The Storydancer Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010848334
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Phone
5059300600
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,414
Expenses
$117,795
Assets
$62,039
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Zuleikha Bethami (Founder-Executive Director)
  • William Elliot (Board Vice-President)
  • Cynda Rushton (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Zuleikha Bethami (Founder-Executive Director)
  • William Elliot (Board Vice-President)
  • Cynda Rushton (Board President)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Self-Care & Palliative Care programs & wellness trainings

What it reported doing in 2025

INNOVATIONS IN PALLIATIVE CARE: TSP in partnership with CanSupport India. Live and online palliative care sessions for Home Care Team cancer patients and families, trainings for Home Care Team members; and trainings for Home Care Team members, general staff and nurses in training, rejuvenation of body mind and spirit. (3,400 served.)

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 65.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.