2025-08-15T17:33:50-04:00 2025-05-31 522133330 Enterprise Financial Support 5 Brighton Knolls Court Brinklow MD 20862 990EZ 2024-06-01 460814173 ABADA-CAPOEIRA DC BRAZILIAN ARTS CENTER INC % Yara Cordeiro ABAD 3019475806 144 BARNSFIELD CT GAITHERSBURG MD 208782720 Yara Cordeiro Treasurer and Executive Director 2025-08-16 true Jane Meushaw P01599211 3017757718 2025-08-16 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X www.abadadc.org X X 72054 X 7412 62736 1906 0 0 0 72054 41299 6790 17609 197 10937 76832 -4778 21153 16375 X 24943 18869 24943 18869 3790 2494 21153 16375 The mission of Abada-Capoeira DC Brazilian Arts Center Inc is to promote spread and support Brazilian arts and culture through the practice of capoeira and to use our practice of capoeira and associated arts to build a healthy and more closely connected Washington DC area community. We are organized to accomplish charitable and educational goals including working to lessen socio-economic inequality. CAPOEIRA CLASSES AND PERFORMANCES see Schedule O 0 64478 SOCIAL CAMPAIGNS see Schedule O 0 0 OUTBOUND ACTIVITIES see Schedule O 0 0 64478 Nycole Klein President Director 2 0 0 0 Yara Cordeiro Treasurer Executive Director 2 0 0 0 Thu Do Secretary Director 2 0 0 0 Ruth Lezama Director 2 0 0 0 John Patton Director 2 0 0 0 Liana Agulto Director 2 0 0 0 Ashley Gam Director 2 0 0 0 Yara Cordeiro Program Manager 35 43200 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false false VA Yara Cordeira 144 BARNSFIELD CT GAITHERSBURG MD 208782720 3019475806 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 16320 7456 12929 9566 7412 53683 38764 55006 74214 73434 62736 304154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 55084 62462 87143 83000 70148 357837 2855 3240 2236 2410 1894 12635 0 0 0 0 0 0 2855 3240 2236 2410 1894 12635 345202 5 4 4 5 1906 1924 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 4 5 1906 1924 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 55089 62466 87147 83005 72054 359761 0.9595 0.9697 0.0053 0.0001 X Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Business Registration Fees, $55| Computer and Internet, $199| Merchant Fees, $3487| Software-Others, $1254| Wellness Living Software, $2160| Supplies, $1002| Insurance, $642| Travel & Meetings, $2138| Part II, line 26 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Other assets, $3790, $2494| Part III, Line 28 | Explanation:| CAPOEIRA CLASSES AND PERFORMACES: During the 2024 2025 Abada-Capoeira DC ACDC 17th year we achieved numerous objectives including broadening our student base achieving our fundraising goals and improving our performance schedule. We have experienced steady growth in student enrollment particularly in our childrens classes. We also worked with Strathmore for summer and spring camps and with the Children Choir of Washington DC with a Ciranda workshop. Although our activities area back to mostly in person we have maintained our in-person virtual hybrid model for those who face challenges attending classes eventually. Our Portuguese language classes have continued and our students have improved their fluency. Our instruments music classes have shown greater consistency providing students with enhanced opportunities to explore various instruments and their rhythms which has resulted in better fluency and engagement in rodas. Recently we had the honor of performing both capoeira and an orchestra of berimbaus for Alma Dance Studios International Night. We had a total of 26 new students joining our program. We had 65 people experiencing capoeira through our free trial class service. Our Saturday classes continue to be held outdoors during the warm months increasing the exposure of the art of capoeira to the community. We also continued promoting performances in several schools and parks in the DC metro area. We were invited by Strathmore to perform the art of capoeira in closing their summer camp program and by the Childrens Choir of Washington DC for the end of year concert. Our students have traveled to CA NY Puerto Rico Brazil and Portugal to participate in capoeira events. These last two being the European Games in Portuga and the Zumbimba training at the Quilombo dos Palmares in Brazil a region that used to be the largest and long-lasting maroon community in Brazil and that today is protected as a cultural heritage site. ACDC held our yearly Batizado in the Spring drawing capoeiristas from across the globe to train with multi-year World Champion Mestrando Morceginho. Throughout the year students committed themselves to improving their capoeira skills with many receiving new cordas during the Batizado ceremony. We appreciate the participation of capoeiristas from New York California and Puerto Rico in our training and events and in return our students traveled to New York California and Puerto Rico to train and take part in their batizados. We also receive the visit of instructors professors and Mestres from out of town for some experience exchange as well as we participated in events with other schools and the capoeira community in the Washington DC area. Part III, Line 29 | Explanation:| SOCIAL CAMPAIGNS: We remain committed to supporting local nonprofits by donating small shoes and womens and childrens outerwear to Women Giving Back an organization that aids survivors of domestic abuse organizing a food donation event where we deliver filled boxes to Manna Food Center and maintaining our ongoing blood drive. It is very important to us at Abada-Capoeira DC to keep promoting successful social campaigns of charitable significance helping to build the sense of responsibility among the students for the community of which they are a part. Part III, Line 30 | Explanation:| OUTBOUND ACTIVITIES: Social activities play a crucial role in ACDC fostering connections among students and their families beyond the classroom. Our yearly Halloween Hike complete with smores by the campfire summer visits to a local waterpark and our Anniversary celebration all contribute to reinforcing the community within ACDC.