West Slope Westies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883820854
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Durango, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9708801565
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,244
- Expenses
- $14,524
- Assets
- $24,010
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Martin Saunders (President)
- Lorisha Ionno (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Martin Saunders (President)
- Lorisha Ionno (Vice President)
- Ellen Muckerman (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
To increase social dancing opportunities in the Durango community and surrounding areas. Specifically by offering weekly lessons in West Coast Swing dance. Train volunteer instructors for weekly classes, create structured and worthwile dance curriculum. Promote quality communication with dance community members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Held volunteer instructor trainings, regularly hosts social dances.Host annual instructor workshop for the education and enrichment of attendees.Studio rental for these events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- 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: 34.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 57.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 46.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.