Commonwealth Chorale Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042609202
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Newton, MA, USA
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,441
- Expenses
- $112,627
- Assets
- $396,600
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Michael Driscoll (Artistic Director)
- Carol Abrahams (Chairman of the Board)
- Michele Michaud-Kinsla (Board VP Administration)
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
Commonwealth Chorale is committed to performing the finest classical music from all periods and from a wide cross-section of composers.
What it reported doing in 2024
May 18, 2025 Copland: Old American Songs, Dett: the Chariot Jubilee, Alice Parker: folk songs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.8%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 24.6%; rating input score 25
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: -41.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.52; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.8% of revenue deployed · 24.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.