Joe Goode Perfomance Group
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Joe Goode Performance Group JGPG promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater.
- Income
- $774,025
- Spending
- $597,872
- Spent on programs
- 58%
- Reserves
- 7.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 64%
- Employees
- 26
- Volunteers
- 7
- Highest pay
- $82,221, director
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 86 out of 100.
Reserves
28 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 7.8 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 3% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 23% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 75% on the year before.
Spending floor
8 of 1558% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 3 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Fair: 56 out of 100.
Independent board
25 of 256 of 7 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
0 of 15Reports no written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
0 of 8Reports no written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
0 of 7Reports no written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
0 of 5Reports that it does not keep minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
6 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (9)
- $272,100 spent. Are You Okay? is a new site-responsive, immersive dance theater work that set to premiere in San Francisco in August 2025. Responding to US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthys urgent call about the public mental health crises of loneliness and isolation, Are You Okay? asks how we manage in a world personally and collectively unstable. When our lives, health, and jobs are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity is not a privileged luxury, but a critical survival technique. Are You Okay? activates the social techniques and cultural infrastructure developed by LGBTQ+ communities, who have out of necessity crafted nourishing sub-cultural bonds and methodologies. Are You Okay?, will blur boundaries between audience and performers by creating an immersive walk-through performance that allows for audience volition. Intertwining dance, theater, and music in a site-specific setting, the performance will guide audiences through overlapping narratives that illuminate the complexity of mental health.
- $57,656 spent. Community Engagement. Through its Community Engagement, JGPG creates and maintains substantive opportunities for QTBIPOC artists, veterans, elders, and youth, to further advance access and equity in our community. Since 2010, through deep listening and centering the stories of the community which allows for trust to develop over time, JGPG has built partnerships based on collaborative design and sharing of values and learnings.
- $16,231 spent. Gush Festive -Gush Festival is a four-day festival of dance-theater performance and artistic exchange where artists engage with each other and the audience in between pieces for connection and discussion.
- Joe Goode Annex- The Joe Goode Annex is the home of the JGPG Performance Group artistic and programming activities as well as providing the Bay Area community with an affordable studio rental program for classes and performances serving annually over 8,000 audience members, 90 renting artists, with hundreds more artists involved as performers, designers, and teachers.
- As We Go- As We Go is a site-responsive, immersive dance theater work that contemplates the body in all its idiosynchronicity and miraculous unpredictability as we are collectively confronted with our mortality once again in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Developed in partnership with medical professionals in the field of chronic-illness and end-of-life care and community members identifying as elders and/or with chronic health challenges. Premiering in San Francisco, CA, As We Go invites participants to journey through a dynamic, multi sensory,interactive and queered environment that transforms from intimate audience-performer exchanges to abundant community ritual.
- Inspired Bodies JGPGs Youth Education program holds residencies throughout the school year in high schools and one middle school program, introducing JGPGs creative methodologies to create performances based on students' stories and experiences. Serves 200 students directly per year 10-15 sessions per residency 4 residencies within the year
- The Resilience Project emerged in 2016 as a community based performance process in which directors interviewed Veterans and their families and used their individual responses and stories about resilience to develop text for a staged work that collides words and movement, gesture and song into a visceral experience of the participants profoundly moving stories. Today, The Resilience Project doesn't only take shape as performance but exists as workshops and classes. In these sessions, JGPG teaching artists, Veterans and/or Veterans care providers join together as a community to practice shared storytelling and mindful movement. Serves 50-60 people per session 20-30 sessions held per year April 2023: Catalyst Event, JGPG partnered with Access Institute- 5075 people attended and participated in workshops
- Movement for Humans is a gentle accessible movement class for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Weekly classes serve 10-20 people per session 40 classes are held per year
- Spring Workshop- A weekend workshop with Joe Goode designed to revitalize and nourish your creativity. Have you asked yourself lately What matters to me now, in this stage of my life? Part of the Starting Now methodology is to embrace the materials that may be drawn from your life at any given moment, to realize that making something with those materials is a way of waking up to your life and its possibilities. You will leave this workshop with tools, practices and inspiration to inhabit your life, your work and your relationships in a deeper and more deliberate way. No dance or performance background necessary. 15-20 people attended our Starting Now workshop on April 28 and 29 9 hours total
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 1986.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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