Civic Music Association Des Moines
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237334841
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,198,391
- Expenses
- $486,098
- Assets
- $4,021,222
- Liabilities
- $135,388
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA VANDERPOOL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ASHLEY SIDON (EXECUTIVE DI): $43,569 total reported compensation
- BRIAN COYLE LEFT MAY 2024 (PAST EXEC. D): $38,262 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of cma is to engage, enrich and educate the central Iowa community through provocative, world-class musical performances by legends and rising stars. Cma is governed by a volunteer board of directors and has an annual operating budget exceeding 450,000. Cma presents a seven concert season featuring national and international classical and jazz artists. Through its cma studio program cma, contracts these performing artists to present educational events in the community concurrent with their concerts. In addition cma manages the belin quartet, a string quartet funded through a foundation created by the belin family, which performs free chamber music concerts in the community and also offers free education and outreach programs for area schools, youth agencies, retirement homes and community events.
What it reported doing in 2024
The belin quartet was established in the year 2000 by a grant to the civic music association from the Iowa foundation for education, environment, and the arts, a charitable foundation created by david belin. His vision that the whole community should have the opportunity to share the joys of classical music is realized through the belin quartet. Each year the quartet entertains over 1000 people at its indoor and outdoor lunchtime concerts. Additionally they annually perform to more than 500 students and senior citizens in area schools and the wesley retirement community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.1%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $164.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 77.9%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.27; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.1% of revenue deployed · 64.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $315K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $44K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.