Virginia Youth Ballet Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541532675
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Winchester, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5409317446
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,455
- Expenses
- $59,041
- Assets
- $98,926
- Liabilities
- $3,460
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christa Lewis (President)
- Sean Hilleary (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Christa Lewis (President)
- Sean Hilleary (Vice President)
- Bridget Aikens (Secretary)
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
The Virginia Youth Ballet (VYB) is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing company associated with Vostrikov's Academy of Ballet. This organization provides professional-level experiences to dance students and outreach programs in the art of dance. The VYB serves the Northern Shenandoah Valley for the purpose of fostering an appreciation of ballet and dance in general.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Virginia Youth Ballet (VYB)produces two Children's Story Ballets per year; one in the Fall and one in the Spring.Each production typically has six shows, for a total of twelve shows per year. Examples of shows produced in the past include the Sorcerer's Apprentice, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel, The Secret Garden, Cinderella, Peter & the Wolf, Alice in Wonderland, and Sleeping Beauty, amount others. Contemporary ballet pieces have also been performed in conjunction with the Children's Story Ballets such as Serenade, Liberty, and more. The show piece chosen each time is dependent on the ages and abilities of the dancers auditioning for the show. Geographic area served: Located on Cork Street in downtown Winchester, VA, the majority of the dancers and audience are local to the City of Winchester, VA and the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Shenandoah, and Warren, as well as the counties of West Virginia close to the Virginia border. Approximate number of participants to be served: Viewers: Fall Children's Story Ballet - 900 viewers (650 students for Friday discounted rate filed trip shows, 200-300 for public shows, 30-50 live stream). Spring Children's Story Ballet typically has similar show sizes for a total of 1800 viewers when combining Fall and Spring performances. Dancers: approximately 50-60 participants for each performance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.