West Coast Ballet

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320655283
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Torrance, CA, USA
Phone
8778295500
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,911
Expenses
$14,245
Assets
$22,341
Liabilities
$75

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Regina Downey (Chief executive officer)

People named in this filing

  • Regina Downey (Chief executive officer)

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

He primary objectives and purpose of the West Coast Ballet ("WCB") is to provide opportunities in dance and dance education. WCB will strive for excellence in providing: 1. Entertain, educate, and culturally enrich the community with the art of dance; 2. Performance and training opportunities for dancers; 3. Provide serious dancers with a professional dance environment that promotes technical and artistic growth; and, 4. Run outreach programs for underserved youth within the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

1) Produced two sold-out performances of Dracula in October, reaching a total audience of more than 1,600 attendees. 2) Expanded access to the arts by introducing ballet to a broad audience, many of whom were experiencing a live ballet performance for the first time. 3) Provided professional performance experience for five aspiring young dancers, allowing them to train, perform alongside professional artists, and gain valuable stage exposure. 4) Increased arts accessibility by donating nearly 100 complimentary tickets to underserved youth dancers through Everybody Dance, enabling them and their families to attend a professional ballet production. 5) Created paid employment and performance opportunities for 10 local dancers, with a commitment to offering fair compensation in an often underpaid field. 6) Generated additional paid work for local stagehands and lighting designers, supporting the broader performing arts workforce. 7) Enhanced community engagement through a festive audience experience, including a themed lobby, photo booth, and merchandise offerings that encourage repeat attendance and deepen patron connection.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 56.7%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.