Cor Mundi Center for Sacred Music

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931880992
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Pearland, TX, USA
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$115,004
Expenses
$86,275
Assets
$69,973

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Daniel Knaggs (President Secretary and Artistic Director)

People named in this filing

  • Daniel Knaggs (President Secretary and Artistic Director)
  • Cassandra Gutierrez (Treasurer)
  • Fran Peterson (Member at Large)

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

Curating and mounting performances recordings e-letter communications and fundraising and marketing for these. The vision is to sow seeds of mercy healing and reconciliation in the third millennium through shared encounters with beauty.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program Title: Sacred Echoes Description: Cor Mundi presented Sacred Echoes a concert program examining the concept of musical and spiritual echo across centuries of sacred music. Two public performances featured Renaissance and contemporary sacred works with plainchant and Eastern European repertoire interwoven throughout the program. The concerts highlighted connections between historical sacred traditions and contemporary compositional voices performed by the Cor Mundi Chamber Choir in its debut. Persons benefited: Approx. 300 attendees.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% 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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 84

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: 25%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 79% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 80.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.