Dc Concert Orchestra Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475289896
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025945633
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,716
- Expenses
- $101,202
- Assets
- $40,822
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Myers (Executive Director, Board Member ex officio)
- Yolanda Cole (President)
People named in this filing
- Randall Stewart (Music Director, Board Member ex officio)
- Robert Myers (Executive Director, Board Member ex officio)
- Jack Aubert (Secretary)
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
Mission Statement: The DC Concert Orchestra Society offers a full range of member support services and musical opportunities from casual play-ins to skilled chamber and orchestral performances for non-professional adult musicians. We advance and celebrate our diverse musical heritage through our programming, our people, and our audiences across the metropolitan region to share in a lifetime of music. Supplement: DCCO is our performance orchestra program, DCCM, our performance chamber music program and the Classical Musicians of Metropolitan DC serves as a community of interest to engage amateur musicians in chamber music on an informal basis. (NTEE A69 for DCCO, A6C for DCCM, and A99 for CM-MDC)
What it reported doing in 2024
Classical Musicians of Metro DC (CM-MDC) -- Social media network of hundreds of amateur musicians interested in chamber music. Social media platform facilitates introductions of musicians, hosting private rehearsals, and hosting large open chamber music gatherings. In cooperation with DCCM, hosted 5 open chamber music play-ins serving 120+ musicians and supported/coordinated additional musical events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 2.4%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.