Freedom High School Band and Orchestra Parents Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237359575
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6108675843
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,765
- Expenses
- $34,154
- Assets
- $67,837
- Liabilities
- $24,812
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH BENDER (President)
- MERE ALLEN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH BENDER (President)
- MERE ALLEN (Vice President)
- SARAH CAMPBELL (TREASURER)
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
The organization's mission is to create and maintain an enthusiastic interest in the various groups of the instrumental music department of freedom high school and keep them at the highest degree of efficiency by raising money through fundraising events for instrument and equipment purchases, uniforms, and musical training. The organization also performs fundraising events that allow the groups to travel and to provide participant recognition through a banquet, scholarships, and awards. Refreshments are also provided by the organization at various group functions.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scholarships - provided (9) $300.00 college scholarships to deserving student participants in the organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.