Offers dance education, creation, performance, and engagement for students, artists, and audiences.
For fiscal year 2025 it reported $334K in revenue, $333K in expenses.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2025
Total revenue
$334K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$333K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$0
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $648
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
59%
41%
Program services $0.59 Management & general $0.41
Program efficiency
59%
of spending reaches programs▼ -32% vs prior filing year
Surplus margin
0%
revenue over expenses, this year▼ -99% vs prior filing year
Donor-funded
11%
of revenue is gifts & grants▼ -45% vs prior filing year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2025 · Form 990
Revenue
$334K
FY2025▼ -9%
$366K$183K$0
FY2022FY2025
Expenses
$333K
FY2025▲ +7%
$333K$167K$0
FY2022FY2025
Total assets
$0
FY2025
$1$0$0
FY2022FY2025
Total liabilities
$0
FY2025
$1$0$0
FY2022FY2025
Total revenue
$334K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$333K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$0
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$648
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$0
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B59%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 37
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 47
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2024.
01
Dance for Every Body. DancEast Collective is committed to making dance accessible to students, artists, and audiences. The Dance for Every Body project was centered around the portion of our mission that seeks to offer highly-accessible, community-based dance programs.
Pt IX · col B
02
DancEast Collective Youth. We were highly successful in achieving the goals for our youth programming in FY25. DancEast Collective served 63 youth between the ages of 8 and 18 in the DancEast Studio. We served an additional 28 youth in that age range in Metro Nashville Public Schools.
Pt IX · col B
03
DancEast Company. Being able to pay competitive wages to dancers is an incredibly important part of our mission. The fact that 3 of the 6 dancers in the company are Latine (1 born in Cuba and another in Mexico) is something of which we are quite proud.
Lauren Melancon’s $45K as Education Director
is at the 39th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2213 $100K–1M arts & culture nonprofits.
Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 4 named individuals · Part VII
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
Individual Lauren Melancon · Reported title Education Director · Highest reported compensation $45K · Total expenses $333K
13%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $199K · Total expenses $333K
60%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
59%
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Overhead ratio
41%
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Fundraising cost ratio
0%
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Revenue growth
-9%
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Straight from the Form 990 — descriptive, not an evaluation. A ratio is hidden when its base is zero or too small to be meaningful; the dollars are always shown.
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Sources
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Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2025IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
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