- Revenue 2024
- $96,067
- Expenses 2024
- $101,838
Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A62
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 4111 VENDOME PL
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
The Corporation is organized exclusively for, and shall operate exclusively for, educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future Federal Tax Code. The Corporation's purpose is to bring contemporary dance to the forefront and make contemporary dance accessible to New Orleanians in a number of ways. By promoting contemporary dance that as a meaningful, expressive narrative with strong musicality and collaboration with other art forms to engage and enrich the culture of the Louisiana, and more specifically, New Orleans community (the "Community"); By promoting contemporary dance as a rigorous activity for achieving physical and mental fitness and general well being among the community; By providing an opportunity for professional dancers to perform regularly, and learn, grow and craft high quality dance together.
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Remount of an original theatrical contemporary dance production with live music called The UpStairs lounge. The production is the true story of a bar in New Orleans that was safe haven for the LGBTQ+ community and was burned by an arsonist killing 32 people in 1973. This production included about 40 artists and was attended by 440 people.
Expenses $36,313 · Grants $23,333
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Premiere of an original theatrical contemporary dance production with live music called Speak(Easy). The production is historical fiction about the roaring 1920s in New Orleans, where hidden speakeasies, hot jazz, and diverse, defiant characters-led by "Rouge," a Lois Long-inspired writer-explore gender, power, and artistic freedom amid Prohibition's glittering chaos and cultural upheaval. This production included about 40 artists and was attended by 300 people.
Expenses $45,732 · Grants $5,000
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Performance at the American Nurses Credentialing Center conference. We performed with 16 dancers and a full live band for 14,000 conference attendees and an additional estimated 2,000 attendees online.
Expenses $8,885
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Michael Tebeleff
Board chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alix Tarnowsky
Vice Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Monica Ordonez
Artistic Director
- Total calculated
- $5,000
- Compensation
- $5,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Alexa Lambert
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Erica Rench
Board memeber
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Kristina Ganssle
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jarina Carvalho
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Laura Martin
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Justice Hues
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Nicole Buckels
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $96,067
- Expenses
- $101,838
- Contributions
- $53,258
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023
- Tax period
- 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
- Principal officer
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Alexa Lambert
- Mailing address
- 4111 Vendome PlaceNew Orleans LA 70125
- Website
- melangedanceofnola.com
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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2025 Love Letters of WWII
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2024 The production of Speak Easy
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2023 The production of: Upstairs Lounge
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2022 Fund Local art & theatre production
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.