2026-09-09T09:51:08-04:00 2026-05-31 522133330 Enterprise Financial Support 5 Brighton Knolls Court Brinklow MD 20862 990EZ 2025-06-01 460814173 ABADA-CAPOEIRA DC BRAZILIAN ARTS CENTER INC ABAD 3019475806 144 BARNSFIELD CT GAITHERSBURG MD 208782720 Yara Cordeiro Treasurer and Executive Director 3019475806 2026-09-10 true Jane Meushaw P01599211 3017757718 2026-09-10 X 2025 X X www.abadadc. org X X 85242 X 8642 76200 400 0 0 0 85242 44450 10882 19970 804 14296 90402 -5160 16375 11215 X 18869 15178 18869 15178 2494 3963 16375 11215 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 56661 SOCIAL CAMPAIGNS see Schedule O 0 0 OUTBOUND ACTIVITIES see Schedule O 0 0 56661 Nycole Klein President and Director 2 0 0 0 Yara Cordeiro Treasurer and Executive Director 2 0 0 0 Thu Do Secretary and 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 36762 0 0 Carla Verkoren Director 2 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false false MD 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 7456 12929 9566 7412 8642 46005 55006 74214 73434 62736 76200 341590 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62462 87143 83000 70148 84842 387595 3240 2236 2410 1894 870 10650 0 0 0 0 0 0 3240 2236 2410 1894 870 10650 376945 4 4 5 1906 400 2319 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 1906 400 2319 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62466 87147 83005 72054 85242 389914 0.9667 0.9595 0.0059 0.0053 X Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Business Registration Fees, $42| Computer Internet & Software, $4357| Merchant Fees, $5748| Supplies, $873| Insurance, $769| Travel Transport & Meals, $2357| Bank Fees, $150| Part II, line 26 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Other assets, $2494, $3963| Part III, Line 28 | Explanation:| CAPOEIRA CLASSES AND PERFORMACES: During the 2025 2026 year Abada-Capoeira DC ACDC has successfully entered its 18th year achieving a number of goals such as securing additional grants expanding our student base and enhancing our performance schedule. We also started offering regular after-school programs that had not been offered since the covid pandemic. Our Portuguese language classes have seen an increase leading to improved fluency among our students. And we also stablished a weekly music class to teach the students the instruments used in capoeira such as berimbau atabaque and others. That also included learning new songs which helped the students to grasp the deeper cultural meanings and culture of Brazil conveyed in the songs. We had a total of 26 new students joining our program. We had over 80 people experiencing capoeira through our free trial class service. We kept the Saturday classes outdoors during the warm months increasing the exposure of the art of capoeira to the community maintaining the Mommy Daddy & me program. We started an afterschool program in DC and we also had some nice performances in several schools and parks in the DC metro area bringing the art of capoeira to thousands of peoples. We were invited once again to offer capoeira classes at Strathmore spring and summer camps. We organized trips to events in NY and CA and also a trip to the World games in Brazil with a group of students joining the trip to take classes with the top Master in the world and some of them joining the competition. We promoted the traditional annual Batizado graduation ceremony and workshops and we held the third edition of ACDC Capital Games open to capoeiristas from all over the US. We had guests coming from Brazil Canada Puerto Rico and many USA locations. It was an intense week of experience exchange. We are particularly proud of our ACDC students that were able to get a total of 18 medals in multiple categories in the competition almost doubling what we achieved in the last edition of the competition. We promoted weekend of training with capoeira friends from NY and we also received the visit of other 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 kept our community outreach activities such as our VDOT street cleanings of Newbrook Drive in Chantilly VA our batizado food drive to benefit Manna food Bank a mental health awareness campaign a winter clothing drive to benefit Women Giving Back a blood drive and a donation of diverse items for Goodwill in VA. This is a very important part of our mission to keep promoting successful social campaigns of charitable significance helping to build the sense of belonging and responsibility among the students for the community of which they are a part. One special activity we had was supporting the Monks on their @walkforpeace.usa. Our message for freedom in capoeira aligns perfectly with their message for peace and it is always what the world needs more and the most. For us it was a solemn moment to greet them along their path honoring their journey with respect and gratitude. Part III, Line 30 | Explanation:| OUTBOUND ACTIVITIES: Our social activities also increased. We had a joint Halloween Party with Alma Dance Studio where we offer classes. Our day at the water park during summer was a huge hit our Holiday Party and our Anniversary Aulo big class were also very popular with the students and families. We also went to Brazilian Music concerts and we were able to promote our Kids Capoeirathon once again.