Gainesville Chamber Orchestra Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592447662
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3523733677
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $775,319
- Expenses
- $566,140
- Assets
- $578,698
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREG JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH SUGALSKI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA MICHA (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GREG JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH SUGALSKI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA MICHA (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The gainesville chamber orchestra will provide to alachua county and surrounding areas quality programs through traditional and contemporary repertoire, which will entertain, enrich and educate a diverse and broad-based audience.
What it reported doing in 2025
The gainesville orchestra is gainesville's only professional orchestra. We have seven, typically sold out, concerts each year. We also have an annual children's concert where we bus in 1,500 area school children to see their first live orchestra concert. The orchestra performs by invitation in st. Augustine for the prestigious emma concert series. Every year we have broadway singers who perform with our orchestra for a very special audience experience. At our pops concert each year we invite the audience to walk throughout the orchestra while they are performing to immerse themselves in the performance on the stage. We also invite prominent local artists to paint a portrait on stage while the orchestra plays, completing the work of art before the performance is over. Disney chose gainesville orchestra to be the first orchestra in the world to perform the music from "frozen," which is proof of the high regard for our maestro and orchestra. We now operate a children's mentoring program where we teach violin lessons to approximately 150 students at two elementary schools. We provide 90 violins for student use and pay qualified instructors, with instructional costs exceeding $4,000 per month during the school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $116.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $506K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.