The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330299356
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7145418314
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ballet
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,163,900
- Expenses
- $4,008,819
- Assets
- $16,137,749
- Liabilities
- $245,176
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAWN REESE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND BOARD MEMBER)
Highest reported compensation
- DAWN REESE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND BOARD MEMBER): $273,307 total reported compensation
- VANESSA RODRIGUEZ (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $135,760 total reported compensation
- TIANNA HARADON (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $127,408 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to inspire and transform the lives of young people through the power of dance and access to higher education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Supporting programs: student and family services - activities tailored to support the overall well-being of each student and their family that includes: counseling sessions and crisis intervention, social service referrals, workshops, donated tickets to arts performances, leadership camps, and advanced dance training intensives.dance free weeks - a three week-long dance training program provided free of charge to economically-disadvantaged school children in orange county.college & career readiness - activities designed to ensure students succeed in school and in life, including free academic tutoring programs, college and career readiness, advisement test preparation, and merit-based scholarships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.03; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $273K · 33 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.