Eau Claire Jazz Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263929371
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Eau Claire, WI, USA
- Phone
- 7158364092
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $178,921
- Expenses
- $173,268
- Assets
- $129,989
- Liabilities
- $4,133
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- JERRY KUEHL (TREASURER)
- ROBIN ELVIG (BOARD PRESID)
- ROBERT BACA (ARTISTIC DIR)
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
Promote an appreciation for jazz music
What it reported doing in 2024
Jazz fest includes a jazz competition and education for 50+ middle school, high school, and college bands. This competition is accompanied by a downtown jazz festival attracting 4,000+ musicians and audience members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.7%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 55.4%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.7% of revenue deployed · 55.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.