Capitol Hill Chorale
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263577972
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025962657
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,912
- Expenses
- $120,751
- Assets
- $329,976
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Radharani De (President/Director)
- Samuel Holliday (Vice President/Director)
People named in this filing
- Radharani De (President/Director)
- Samuel Holliday (Vice President/Director)
- Erik Lundgren (Treasurer/Director)
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
Choral music performance in support of the public, singers, and community for charitable, educational, and artistic purposes.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the Chorale's 32th season we celebrated the 25th anniversary of our artistic director, Frederick Binkholder. Rehearsals continued to be held at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill with Zoom available for those who couldn't attend in-person. All performances were pay what you can with suggested ticket payments ranging from $15-$30 and we continued to record and live stream our performances to reach audience members unable to attend in person. In December we performed "Winter's Voice", featuring a variety of winter-themed music. Our March concert celebrated the music of pioneering composer, Alice Parker. In June our program focused on works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, particularly his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Our composer in residence, Kevin Siegfried, contributed songs to our December and March performances, concerts which also featured several songs accompanied by cello. We selected our second Drummond Fellow director through our Drummond Fellowship program, which allows an up-and-coming choral director to direct occasional rehearsals, organize and put on their own concert, and receive mentorship and support from CHC's director and board - the Fellow's concert will be part of the chorale's 2026 program. Approximately 100 singers participated in each of these concerts. Over 1,300 tickets were sold during the season, including 189 for households that enjoyed streamed concerts. Social activities to support our singers included holiday and year-end parties and special interest activities. We also participated in our usual community singing events with holiday caroling at Eastern Market, an accompaniment at the Kennedy Center's Earth to Space event, and other small events in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 97
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: 18.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.