East County Youth Symphony

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205881556
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
El Cajon, CA, USA
Phone
3107664411
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Symphony Orchestras

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,538
Expenses
$106,723
Assets
$58,688
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alexandra Keegan (Executive Director)
  • Irie Morales (Assistant Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Alexandra Keegan (Executive Director)
  • Irie Morales (Assistant Executive Director)

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

East County Youth Symphony's mission is to provide free, high quality orchestral education and performance opportunities to young musicians, and share the spirit of classical music with new audiences of adults and children.

What it reported doing in 2024

ECYS Advanced Orchestra consists of high school and college orchestra players. This group performs professional repertoire such as L. van Beethoven's Symphonies No.1,3,5,7, J. Brahms's Symphony No.3, Rachmaninoff's Symphony No.2, C Frank's Symphony in D, etc. This orchestra is designed to introduce advanced and pre-professional level players to the professional environment. We have mentors, who are experienced, high class professionals tutoring every orchestra section before the concerts. These seasoned musicians also perform with students. Usually we have 11 or 12 of htem to mentor and help kids to learn their difficult parts. This model is working very well for those who are just starting their professional career in classical music.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% 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: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -58%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 56.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $97K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.