Twist and Shout School of the Performing Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010867427
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7082205522
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,466
- Expenses
- $47,110
- Assets
- $15,834
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lamar Lockett (President)
People named in this filing
- Lamar Lockett (President)
- Malgorzata Rejnowska (Secretary)
- Teodoro Ramos (Treasury and Compliance)
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
Supplementary In-School educational services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Twist and Shout School of the Performing Arts, a not-for-profit 501 c 3 organization focusing on reaching out to youth in Chicago in disadvantaged communities, has had a successful year in 2023 which saw growth in our program offerings, new community partners, and a positive effect on more kid's lives. In 2023, Twist and Shout expanded our reach into Chicago communities, working with more community organizations, and provide in school educational programs at schools in need of quality after school programs. Communities We Made An Impact In: Twist and Shout brought dance, chess, bicycle and fitness programs to schools in Pilsen, Grand Crossing, Englewood, and the West Pullman neighborhoods. Partners We Collaborated With: Twist and Shout worked with many community partners this year including Pilsen Wellness Center, Family Focus, Communities In Schools, Eye Love You, Ingenuity, Chicago Chess Foundation, Chicago Chess Center Chicago Archdiocese, and CPS Academic Chess. These organizations have helped us to work in schools in their communities. Program Accomplishments: Twist and Shout worked with Communities In Schools in 2022 to provide full semester long Dance programs at no charge to schools in need in the South Side of Chicago. The expenses for these programs were paid by Twist and Shout. We greatly expanded our reach in chess instruction with a presence at many more schools. We hired several more chess instructors to serve these students. Through our fundraisers, Twist and Shout was able to raise enough money to buy more equipment to better serve the students in our classes. We invested in more chess boards, tablets, fitness equipment and bike parts to expand our services and increase the quality of the services we provide. This has allowed us to hire more teachers and provide more classes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -48.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.