Chatterbird
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474590416
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154768006
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ballet
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,773
- Expenses
- $112,897
- Assets
- $3,266
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- CARISSA STOLTING (BOARD CHAIR)
- CELINE THACKSTON (DIRECTOR)
- PATRICK BLOCK (TREASURER)
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
Chatterbird's primary purpose is to create innovative chamber music experiences that educate and inspire diverse audiences while supporting musicians and composers through new music projects.
What it reported doing in 2024
2022/2023 season programming: chatterbirds 2022/23 season included the presentation of two ticketed mainstage events, featuring collaborations with cellist joshua dent, spoken word artist tavius marshall, the vanderbilt curb center, and the blair school of music composition faculty. Additionally, chatterbird presented four free collaborative community concerts in partnership with nashville chamber music series, make music nashville, and the university of Tennessee contemporary music festival. Combined attendance at these events was 900+. Engagement with freely available previous season video content remained strong, with more than 10,000 impressions over the course of the fiscal year. Chatterbird also wrapped up a year-long residency featuring four musicians exploring and creating site-specific music in places of racial trauma across the south. Chatterbird's work in the 2022/23 season continued to receive positive critical response, including multiple critics' picks, reviews, and media mentions. The ensemble employed 45 artists over the course of the fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92
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: -0.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.