Community Chorus of Detroit

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611655773
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
7344178172
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Singing, Choral

Reported finances

Revenue
$115,071
Expenses
$63,340
Assets
$207,937
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Frances Brockington (Vice President and Board Member)
  • Megan Norris (President)

People named in this filing

  • Frances Brockington (Vice President and Board Member)
  • Janet Brown (Board Member and coordinator of young artist program)
  • Steve Fardig (Board Member and librarian)

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 Community Chorus of Detroit is dedicated to promoting and interest in choral singing and generally enhancing the Detroit regional community. We perform two sets of two concerts per year with professional orchestra. Our singers are diverse in every way. We have extensive community outreach with local schools and community groups.

What it reported doing in 2025

The CCD produced four live concerts in December and May during the fiscal year. The CCD has an active outreach effort including young people interested in chorale singing in our chorus.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 45%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.28; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.