Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232213350
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,147
- Expenses
- $183,686
- Assets
- $50,081
- Liabilities
- $1,326
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Meloy (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Michael Hogue (Managing Director)
- Donald R Meineke (Artistic Director)
- Michael Meloy (Board President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Choral Arts exists to provide historically-informed performances of early choral music such as Bach and Schutz along with modern companion pieces inspired by early musicians. The organization provides a musical home for professional singers instrumentalists and composers as well as highly-trained avocational singers. Choral Arts presents 5 to 6 concerts each year.
What it reported doing in 2025
During our 2025-2026 season Choral Arts presented 5 concerts including Handels Messiah and the Bach Easter Oratorio. We employed between 8 and 20 professional singers and instrumentalists and welcomed more than 1500 audience members to concerts. Through our partnership with Art Reach we made concerts accessible to between 12 and 20 attendees with physical or financial barriers. We also participated in a 6th community engagement concert singing music from the video game Final Fantasy. Concert related expenses were roughly 152,000 83% of our total season budget of 184,000.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
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: -1.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.