Excellence in the Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113779120
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sandy, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8017183862
- Rating
- 32
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $678,335
- Expenses
- $614,758
- Assets
- $104,204
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREW COHEN (CONTRACTOR): $56,753 total reported compensation
- JEFF WHITELEY (MANAGING DIRECTOR): $24,000 total reported compensation
- ANDREW GLANVILLE (DIRECTOR): $13,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to create more and better performance opportunities for Utah musicians. We produce public performances and offer them free to the public. By offering a wide range of styles and diversity of artists people come together to celebrate the achieivements of Utah artists, and communities are enriched and enlivened.
What it reported doing in 2024
The 2024 tax return reflects significant progress for excellence in the community. We collaborate regularly with the gallivan center (owned by slc).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.9%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 7
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.9% of revenue deployed · 6.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.