Bay Area Rainbow Symphony
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800141911
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155784652
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,665
- Expenses
- $73,408
- Assets
- $88,451
- Liabilities
- $494
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laurence Lewis (President/Treas)
- Gene Nakajima (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Laurence Lewis (President/Treas)
- Gene Nakajima (Vice President)
- Ken Schoon (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 Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) is an orchestra that provides a safe and inclusive environment to musicians of all sexual orientations, genderidentites and gender expressions. BARS makes cultural, social and educational contributions to the San Francisco Bay Area by performing ambitiousrepertoire to a high standard._
What it reported doing in 2024
Weekly rehearsals attended by 70 musicians; 4 major concerts attended by 1,000 people, and several small chamber music concerts attended by 100 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.6%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.9%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.6% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.