American Pops Orchestra
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812627557
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025993865
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,687,509
- Expenses
- $1,573,088
- Assets
- $257,959
- Liabilities
- $143,538
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gary Carleton (Vice President)
- Robert Pullen (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Danielle Brasure (Secretary)
- Gary Carleton (Vice President)
- David Crook (Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The American Pops Orchestra is dedicated to bringing American popular music to diverse audiences in dynamic ways. APO's mission is to build community through the preservation promotion and re-imagination of American popular music. Through live and virtual performances educational initiatives and collaborations APO makes the highest quality art accessible to the broadest audiences.
What it reported doing in 2021
Educational Outreach Tours and Initiatives including virtual children's outreach tours online content and the annual NextGen National Collegiate Vocal Competition including free masterclasses arrangements and performances
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.9%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 34.2%; rating input score 34
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 11th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 73.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -57.2% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.9% of revenue deployed · 34.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $397K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 43 current checks pass · 7 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX AllOtherExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesAccounting column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OtherSalariesAndWages column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.