Yellowstone Ballet Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810463130
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Livingston, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062220430
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,424
- Expenses
- $116,625
- Assets
- $27,561
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER STILLINGS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHLEEN RAKELA (ARTISTIC DIR)
- JENNIFER STILLINGS (PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW CROWN (VICE PRESIDE)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe that dance, and ballet in particular, has great communicative power, that is can transcend language barriers and move people. Yellowstone ballet company's mission is to create, inspire and educate. We create orginal story ballets such a girls of the golden west, hiawatha, romeo & juliet of the rockies, pinocchio for the 21st century, the elves & the shoemaker, the little mermaid, hansel & gretel - with a twist, boots & ballet and songs & dances of love; we inspire by producing classical ballets such as the nutcracker, giselle, cinderella, stars of the boston baller, swan lake and la fille mal gardee, and we educate by providing performance and master class opportunities to our youth and children, allowing them to work side by side with professionals.
What it reported doing in 2024
To create story ballets; to inspire by producing classical ballets; and to educate by providing performance and master class opportunites to our youth and children, allowing them to work side by side with professionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.5% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $114K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.