Alamo City Performing Arts Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
742638601
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2017
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
2103698311
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ballet

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$570,023
Expenses
$700,952
Assets
$753,819
Liabilities
$405,419

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cory McRae (President and CEO)
  • Abelardo Trevino (Vice-President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Cory McRae (President and CEO): $42,000 total reported compensation
  • Joseph Kneer (Music Director - Symphony Viva): $7,000 total reported compensation
  • Robert Mark Rogers (Music Director - Heart of Texas): $5,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Alamo City Performing Arts Association is dedicated to providing inclusive education and performance opportunities in dance, theater, and music to inspire a lifelong appreciation for the performing arts within our community. Through educational programs, public performances, and collaborations with professional artists, we enrich the cultural life of San Antonio while fostering artistic excellence and developing the next generation of performers. This mission is carried out through Alamo City Arts Academy, Alamo City Dance Company, Alamo Symphony Viva, The Heart of Texas Concert Band, Memory Lane Dance Band, Alamo City Mariachi Academy, Alamo City Stage Company, and Alamo City Ballet Folklorico.

What it reported doing in 2025

Alamo City Arts Academy provides year-round arts education through comprehensive instruction in dance, music, theater, and voice for students of all ages and experience levels. The Academy offers training in a variety of dance disciplines, including ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, contemporary, hip hop, musical theater, ballet folklórico, flamenco, and adaptive dance, as well as private and group instruction in music and theater. Classes are designed to foster technical excellence, creativity, confidence, discipline, and a lifelong appreciation for the performing arts in a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment. In addition to weekly classes, the Academy offers workshops, master classes, summer intensives, performance opportunities, and outreach programs that connect students with accomplished artists and educators from around the world. Through these educational experiences, students develop artistic, personal, and leadership skills while preparing for college, professional careers, community performances, and lifelong participation in the arts. Financial assistance and scholarship opportunities help ensure that quality arts education remains accessible to students throughout the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.8%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 61.4%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -23%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.8% of revenue deployed · 61.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $430K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.