Chandler Symphony Orchestra
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861035351
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chandler, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6025827374
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,851
- Expenses
- $105,557
- Assets
- $156,978
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT LUSTER (President)
- PAMELA HAHN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT LUSTER (President)
- CATHERINE NOWELL (Treasurer)
- MARK CANNON (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
To serve the greater chandler community by providing a series of classical concerts, free of charge to the general public, performed by professionally trained musicians who volunteer their time and talents.
What it reported doing in 2024
14th annual youth soloist competition in which a student from middle school or high school was chosen to perform a solo with the orchestra during a concert.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.2%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 8
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: -18.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -63.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.2% of revenue deployed · 7.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.