Ames Youth Choir Ames Childrens Choir
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391904496
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Ames, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5157088825
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,297
- Expenses
- $67,288
- Assets
- $7,894
- Liabilities
- $6,755
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NANCY EWING (President)
People named in this filing
- NANCY EWING (President)
- Eric Johnson (Treasurer)
- KLAIRE DEVOS (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Ames Childrens Choirs program aspires to the best in the American choral tradition for young singers. The focus is the development of self-esteem through artistic experience including healthy vocal technique, expressive singing, and music literacy. The program promotes musical excellence, performing music from all style periods, cultures and traditions including premiering new works, the potential and achievements of young people, collaborating with professional musicians and ensembles, creating connections in the community and throughout the world, volunteerism, making the program available to all musically talented children, and the joy of singing.
What it reported doing in 2024
To promote musical excellence among the youth of Central Iowa and to bring the gift of music to our community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.86; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.