Northwest Professional Dance Project

Analysis

Northwest Professional Dance Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending October 2023, Northwest Professional Dance Project reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.5m, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.1m (-40%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2020, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Northwest Professional Dance Project sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sepm Society for Sedimentary Geology ($1.1m), Dancing Grounds ($1.1m) and Pacific Shellfish Institute ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% and program service revenue 66% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $274k (19% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $595k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $254k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 21 employees.