Chicago Chorale
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850487797
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7737208497
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,349
- Expenses
- $104,109
- Assets
- $72,059
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL COMEAUX (President)
- DAN BERTSCHE (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL COMEAUX (President)
- DAN BERTSCHE (Vice President)
- REBECCA WITMER (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
To perform choral masterworks of the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, in the liturgical seasons and acoustic environments for which they were composed. The chorale provides its members with the opportunity to sing choral music of the highest quality, while providing its audiences with inspirational performances of great music.
What it reported doing in 2024
Performances of choral masterworks of the sixteenth through twentieth centures, in the liturgical seasons and acoustic environments for which they were composed.
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 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 59.7%; rating input score 60
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: 1.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 59.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.