Colorado Hebrew Chorale
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841440152
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Denver, CO, United States
- Phone
- (303) 355-0232
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,377
- Expenses
- $51,636
- Assets
- $24,447
- Liabilities
- $50
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Seth Ward (President)
People named in this filing
- Seth Ward (President)
- Amy Kahn (Member at Large)
- Bonnie Kossoff (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
Mission Statement The Colorado Hebrew Chorale’s mission is to preserve, promote, and celebrate the Jewish experience through song. We are committed to using the power of music to foster understanding through education, Jewish community involvement, and multi-cultural outreach. The Colorado Hebrew Chorale’s mission is to preserve, promote, and celebrate the Jewish experience through song. Diversity Statement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mission Statement: The Colorado Hebrew Chorales mission is to preserve, promote, and celebrate the Jewish experience through song. We are committed to using the power of music to foster understanding through education, Jewish community involvement, and multi-cultural outreach.Diversity Statement: Together with our treble choir, Kol Nashim, the Colorado Hebrew Chorale welcomes all qualified singers of any race, gender expression, disability or religious affiliation.Programs & Accomplishment: The Colorado Hebrew Chorale and our women's choir, Kol Nashim, continued to raise our organization's quality and breadth and expand efforts aimed at bringing unique programs to existing and new audiences while serving underserved populations. During our 2024-25 season, two new performance models were introduced: To Not Be Afraid, an interactive program of art, poetry, and music, in collaboration of Kol Nashim and Artists Against Antisemitism (Feb.2025) and Razzle Dazzle: A Jewish Cabaret (June 2025), involving the Colorado Hebrew Chorale's two choirs and a wide array of outside performers. In the fall of 2025, other free events included Jewish choral immersion experience with Dr. Coreen Duffy, head of Choral Activities at the University of Colorado, Boulder (November 2025), as well as two of our recurring programs, the annual "Summer Sight-Singing Romp" (August 2025) and "Sing Along in the Sukkah" (October 2025), all of which also yielded returning and new participants and locations. Kol Nashim presented an eclectic program of Jewish music as part of the annual interfaith concert, "A Heart for the Holy Days" (December 2025), which brings together diverse performers throughout greater Denver. The Colorado Hebrew Chorale inaugurated a new offering, "The Girl Who Sang: in Story and Song" at libraries in Jefferson and Denver Counties (January and May 2025). Members of the Colorado Hebrew Chorale were honored to have sung "Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin" together with the Lamont School of Music choirs and orchestra at the University of Denver (March 2025). Last but certainly not least, audiences were treated to new music and arrangements in Hebrew and English, commissioned and premiered by both the Colorado Hebrew Chorale and Kol Nashim.
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 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.