Christian Academy of Performing Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472967294
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5125224067
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,605
- Expenses
- $116,800
- Assets
- $86,268
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melissa Kemp (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Lora Maeurer (Key Employee)
- Melissa Kemp (Board President)
- Sharon Gretencord (Board 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The general purposes for which CAPA has been formed are to provide education in music and other performing arts that seeks to honor God and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
What it reported doing in 2025
Choral Education: CAPA's objective is to provide quality choral education to the greater Austin homeschool community. Choirs serve children ages 4-18 and meet weekly during the regular school year. The total number of enrolled students each semester averages around 140. Attendance for the culminating concert at the end of the semester averages around 400 people. Twice per year, each choir also performs at various nursing homes throughout the area. The select ensemble will perform additional gigs at places like local coffee shops, bookstores, and minor league baseball games.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.